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I’d like to take a moment to thank G.W. for a little breakfast banter he caused. As I’m thumbing through the paper this morning my older son Tyler was reading the front page headlines across the room.<\/p>\n
“Dad, what’s a gay marriage?”<\/p>\n
Mind racing… weeding out the inappropriate and sarcastic comments… “Well, it’s when two people of the same sex get married. Like a guy to another guy.”<\/p>\n
“Oh,” he replies. Seems like ithe issue’s just gonna lie there. Maybe that’s best.<\/p>\n
Then little brother Doug pops up, “Cause some guys like boys better than girls?”<\/p>\n
Hmmm… “Well, yeah. Some people’s brains are just wired differently so they tend to want to date other men or other women rather than the opposite sex.”<\/p>\n
“Oh,” he replies. “So what’s wrong with that?”<\/p>\n
Tyler, still reading the headline, contributes, “Bush says it threatens civilization.”<\/p>\n
And Doug moves in for the kill shot… “Yeah, well that’s why we’d rather vote for a house plant than Bush in the next election. He’s pretty dumb.”<\/p>\n
Normally I’d point out that we don’t call people “dumb”, but hey, if the shoe fits…<\/p>\n