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State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr.

“The people of the nation don’t want gay marriage…they don’t want gay marriage.  Forget it.  People don’t want it.” These words were spoken by State Senator Rubén Díaz to the New York Times in an interview on Monday.  Mr. Díaz, a Pentecostal minister who strongly opposes same sex marraige went on to say that he’s not a homophobe because he has friends, a granddaughter and two brothers (one of whom died recently) who are gay.

Before I read this piece that was in today’s Times, I’d grudgingly accepted the fact that every single person in this world has the right to exercise their minds and come up with their personal opinions on the world, their environment and the people in their lives, even if those opinions are flawed and bias.

This morning, as I opened my front door to welcome the crisp autumn leaves that covered the ground like a blanket and collect the Times that was thrown within three feet of my door, the memory of Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia De Rossi talking about their love on the Oprah Winfrey Show was still on my mind.

It was still swimming in my subconscious long after I finished the article about Mr. Díaz and read about a nurse who accidently pierced her finger with a needle that had the blood of a hepatitis C patient.

And feeling for others is the only tool that truly builds.

This weather is ridiculous. Americans are intrinsically skeptical of flip-floppers. There is no reason that this preposterous weather should be subject to any different, easier standard just because it’s a “force of nature.” I mean, come on. Two weeks ago, I was wrapped up tighter than a medieval Japanese ninja to defend against the biting riverside October cold. Now, I’m walking around outside with a t-shirt, wondering to myself what kind of a world we live in where the weather is allowed to pull hijinks like this. I yearn for the days when cold meant cold. Today, cold means that it’s time to pull out your heavy-duty winter wear and wear it for two days so that you survive till the weekend, when it will be a bajillion degrees Fahrenheit outside. In the good old days, cold weather meant snow up past your face and hypothermic temperatures. I remember skiing out my door with my parents on cross-country skies. I certainly don’t remember the atmospheric monkey-business we call weather nowadays. How about, instead of spending money on war and a failing economic system, we develop a dependable weather machine. It’s about time the American people got some reasonable, dependable weather. It’s the least we deserve.

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