Conjugal Nought

The cover of the January 2006 issue of The Rake asks, “ ‘The Sanctity of Marriage’ What are you doing to corrupt it?” In our opinion, the religious right has already corrupted marriage by discriminating against homosexuals, even for civil marriage (a violation of separation of church and state). Though we have been together for ten years, we will not get married until our gay and lesbian friends also have that right. Fortunately, as atheists, we are not compelled to draw our ethics from a “holy” book written by people who thought the Earth was flat and the center of the universe.