Copyright (C) 2004 Robert S. Rosson. All rights reserved.
Conversation overheard in a Boston bar on February 6, 2004 between Ms. Leslie O’Gay and Mr. Ian McStraight:
McStraight: Hey, Les, how about them Pats!
O’Gay: Oh Ian, all you care about is football. I’m much more excited about the decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Court legalizing gay marriages in this state.
McStraight: That’s crazy! I’m for preserving the sanctity of marriage.
O’Gay: Never mind sanctity. Lesbian and gay couples deserve the same rights as heterosexual couples, like hospital visitation and inheritance.
McStraight: O.K. then. Let them have civil unions the way they do in Vermont.
O’Gay: The Court held that “Separate is seldom, if ever, equal”. I’d remind you that with respect to segregation the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, that “Separate is inherently unequal”.
McStraight: Then we need a constitutional amendment stating that marriage is to be only between a man and a woman.
O’Gay: That’s brilliant – only how do you define who’s a man and who’s a woman?
McStraight: That’s easy. If it looks like a man, walks like a man and talks like a man, it’s a man.
O’Gay: Ian, you amaze me! In that case all I have to do to marry my female partner is to dress up like man and fake a deep voice.
McStraight: Listen, wise guy. We’ll just do genetic testing. If you have a “Y” chromosome, you’re a guy and if you have “XX” you’re a gal.
O’Gay: What about my friend who underwent a sex change from male to female? Would she be able to marry a woman based on her “Y” chromosome?
McStraight: This is giving me a headache. Bartender – two more beers!
Published originally in YJHM February 8, 2004
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