“The cultural dissonance is almost deafening”

What’s sticking in my craw is that this is Washington D.C. we’re talking about.  Gay Marriage: now legal in the Capitol city of a nation that foisted “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” legislation onto its gay soldiers and the Defense of Marriage Act onto its gay citizens.  That a gay person can actually get married at the birthplace of so much  legalized oppression smacks of love amid the ruins, only much less romantic.  The idea that a gay couple can legally wed at such a place seems as preposterous as the idea that a lifelong commitment can begin at a drive through wedding chapel in Las Vegas.  The cultural dissonance is almost deafening.

The DC Irony casts into indisputable relief the fact that this contradictory legal-here-but-not-there/legal-for-a-limited-time-only, crazy-quilt state of affairs is absolutely intolerable.  A gay couple wed in D.C. (or Iowa, or Massachusetts, or Vermont, or Connecticut, or New Hampshire) has quite a bit in common with a Confederate Money Millionaire.  We can’t allow ourselves to be placated by the pretend rights put forward by state or local governments.  While it’s wonderful that small enclaves of equal rights do exist, it can’t be ignored that those rights are limited in scope and are held hostage by the questionable “tolerance” of the voting majority.
–The D.C. Irony