Legalize Pot? Least Bad Idea

Which conversation would you rather have with your child?

1) Mom, Dad I’m gay and I want to marry my boyfriend/girlfriend.

2) Mom, Dad I’m pregnant and I want to have an abortion.

3) Mom, Dad I smoked pot.

For us it would be #3 and with a bullet.

It is not that we are not enlightened, well maybe we are not, but even with the current social acceptance it is still not easy being openly homosexual in even the most liberal parts of the world.

Step outside a queer friendly zone and it is not a big step in most cases gays have a target on their backs. Along with the fear of violence there would also be sadness. Even as religious people we would have no problem reconciling our love for our child with the laws of G0d we know there are others in our community that would. That and knowing that despite the secular law there is no way our child and their same sex partner would ever be married in our house of worship would make us sad. And we would also mourn the children that would never be born. Yes we know there is adoption and artificial insemination but its not the same. It may be fulfilling but it is not the same and according to numbers few gays have children and when the do the average is one. Therefore we would be sad.

Abortion would make us sadder still. Again we agree that it should be legal, strictly controlled but legal. Yet how can anyone rejoice in the death of a potential life and one that is well on the way of becoming life?

Indeed the most appalling thing we have ever seen is the sheer ecstasy we saw when abortion supporters win a legal victory. We don’t see anything to celebrate but something to grieve. And we would grieve for any lost grandchild and being human and selfish that loss would affect more than just some random fetus who had no genetic relationship to ourselves.

As for smoking pot, not so much of a big deal. If it wasn’t illegal in Nevada we would put that conversation on the same level as our under aged child having a shot of hard liquor.

But pot is illegal in the Silver State at least for now and frankly it shouldn’t be.

Not for any other reason than it is the least scary conversation we can have with our children.

We have been thinking about the slogan of the Holocaust lately– Never Again

We are thinking about that because we just saw the photos of the Syrian death camps.

The difference is one of size. Instead of millions tens of thousands but then again there are not that many people in Syria as there were in Europe in World War II.

We have seen similar photos before from Bosnia, Darfur, Rwanda, Cambodia, Bangladesh the list goes on.

So we are wondering what about Never Again?

It is not like these later genocides were/are secret.

The world knew about them as they were happening.

So why didn’t the world stop it?

Obviously Never Again does not mean what we think it means.

Perhaps we should take Never Again to mean that never again would the world allow the mass murder of 6 million Jews in Europe.

If so that is a pretty easy pledge to make there are only about 1 million Jews in Europe today.

It may not be a cry to moral outrage but a simple statement of math.

So nice that has been cleared up.

The murder may continue.