Gays, Pregnant Woman and the Pre-existing condition
My extended family continues to proliferate as if god came down from the mountain and said go forth and procreate. One great niece born a month ago, one great nephew born this week, and one niece midway through her pregnancy.
In the meantime, Mississippi is about to make history for something other than its poor education and poverty – it might become the first state to outlaw abortion all together. What is the opposite of progressive? Well if you look it up in the dictionary I think it says, MISSISSIPPI.
Yesterday, we strolled over to one of the largest gay parades in Spain and possibly the world – they expected two million people – which is nutty but we think we made two million and three. Or at least it felt that way – we arrived as the double decker bus float went by carrying children of gay parents. Nice.
Then later we went to meet with a friends and talk – something that Spaniards know how to do in spades. The good news from home – Obamacare passed – the bad news – by a thin margin. Here in Spain, they are in the worst crisis they have ever had economically but Tatjana said as we stood in Santa Ana Plaza waiting for one of our friends to appear – “does this look like a country in crisis?” – there was not a table to be had in the crowded plaza.
Our friend we are staying with who looks conspicuously like Don Draper now that he has shaved off his beard says that there are 400,000 vacant homes in Spain, a product of overbuilding from the gogo 80s 90s and 00’s. “Who will live there?”
But while Spain was being overbuilt so was much of the world, and guess what men were falling in love with men, and women were getting pregnant with unwanted children. Cycles of poverty and repression repeat themselves and most are getting no closer to a truth.
Our pre-existing condition is that we developed from survival mode and then clung to what we learned despite all of the evidence to the contrary – may all beings be happy and free – if getting there means letting go of preconceived notions, of only taking what we need, of tolerance for others, of the notion that every child deserves a good parent not just a life, then where have we come to at this juncture?
Sorry.
July 1st, 2012 at 12:01 pm
So much heart and intelligence not to mention raw news in this post. Hope you have a wonderful time in Spain!
July 1st, 2012 at 9:49 pm
I think you should have the soundtrack of those 2 million people cheering you for this post. Just shows us how far our governments are from the ‘reality’ of people’s lives.
July 2nd, 2012 at 2:25 am
Anne – I see you are taking a break – well deserved one – hope you can detach completely, sharpen that inner voice!
July 2nd, 2012 at 2:27 am
Thanks Marilyn – it’s odd because a friend of ours is an academic and has written a book about actors being in the closet and he also happens to be dating an actor is constantly pressed about his love life and is constantly having to deflect the truth – ironic and sad. Of course, meanwhile the heterosexual woman gets stabbed by her boyfriend in the basement apartment. The film would be entitled True Velvet because it has so many sordid absurd Blue Velvet details.
July 7th, 2012 at 2:29 am
You should write the script.