I actually had an experience with a lesbian we both know who tried to put the make on me two days after I married. It was a scary experience, but I was only 20 years old. If another friend had not come to my house I don’t know what would have happened.

I think it’s morally wrong, but I’m not the majority of Americans and if they want to grant them the same privileges of marriage then they should do the same with hetero couples who are living together and not married.

The Democrats also pandered to big labor this week, with John Edwards evidently a convert to the union movement. He opposed it when running for the Senate and North Carolina, like most of the Southern states, is a Right to Work State, meaning joining a union is optional and if the job is unionized the non-member gets the same benefits as the member without paying the dues, and the dues are high. I know.

When I was out on strike for a month my first paycheck was a partial check because we settled between pay periods. The union took out all the back dues from that check and taxes ate up most of the rest. My check was less than $2.00. I never cashed it so I could screw up the company’s accounting system, and sure enough, they contacted me to cash it. I didn’t and kept it for a long time as a lesson of what the union did for me after I walked in the record heat for almost four weeks.