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Endangered Family

It seems like everywhere I look nowadays, some politician or religious leader is claiming that a minor change in legislation threatens the family (and by extension, everything good from apple pies to spelling bees). I found this from the nytimes.com website:

Not long after Miss Saovapa won her crown, the Thai Constitutional Court ruled that married women had the option of keeping their own surnames, a change that led one legal expert, Preecha Suwannathat, to warn, "I see a crisis looming for families."

Poor families. I never realised they were so frail, or so easily led. "Wow, look, you can register a civil union now. Well, that's it; off to forsake my wife of 50 years and myriad offspring for a sex-change op and a bit of civil-union-tickle."

I wonder if MPs think that secretly, everyone is dying for their chance at a gay relationship, and it's only because of the solid bulwark of discriminatory legislation that they stay heterosexual, eying the political weathervane for their opportunity to scuttle off and have gay sex all willy-nilly.

Memo: All laws do is legitimise what the majority of the population cosiders reasonable. Laws do not change the people; the people change the laws. (Eventually. Curse the traditionalist-time-lag!)