Social Security Rejects Marriage Papers

In the unintended-consequences department, the Social Security Administration is rejecting all marriage certificates from four cities and towns across the country, issued after a different date in each city--the date after which that city started issuing marriage certificates to homosexual couples. These cities and towns are New Paltz, NY; Asbury Park, NJ; Multnomah County, OR; and Sandoval County, NM. (Apparently the New Paltz problem is worse than the rest: no marriage certificate issued after February 27 of this year is acceptable at all. Certificates from the other three locales might be valid if they were issued after a date certain when the homosexual certifications stopped.)

At first glance, one might ask legitimately why Social Security can't tell a homosexual "marriage certificate" from a regular heterosexual one. The answer is painfully simple: epicene names, or names that can apply equally to men or women. Epicene naming is itself a symptom of a larger social problem of which the whole "gay marriage" issue is the biggest blow-up: the deliberate blurring of gender distinctions in modern society.

People would do well to go back to giving their children readily identifiable boys' and girls' names. Gender identity is not just a social convention for its own sake. Your gender is as much about who you are as anything else about you. The problem, of course, is that too many women found that they could no longer take any pride in being women--so now they don't want the men to take any pride in being men. Then they wonder "where all the good men are"--if they're not seeking to redirect their sexual passions toward their fellow women, and wishing that all women would do the same. (And as to the men who redirect their sexual passions, I suspect that they don't know what they want, and haven't been able to figure that out for years.)

Actions have consequences. It's about time that any Federal agency gave a sharp reminder of that maxim to those who thought they could ignore it.