Column

Ayelet Waldman back in today's Salon. This will go over a little more smoothly than her last article there, which I admired for its honesty, even as other people were slamming it for putting her children in a position for which they might be ridiculed for her mental health. (Damn, I keep forgetting that as soon as a woman becomes a mother, she must give up her own identity. Note to self.) From today, I found this especially interesting:

"The Hamilton College Youth Opinion Poll surveyed graduating high school seniors in 2001 about their attitudes on gay issues. Two-thirds of them supported gay marriage, as compared with only one-third of adults. This generational shift has been consistent over the years, and there is no reason to think that my son and his friends in the open-minded majority won't continue to increase in number. "

I am counting on my generation of Conservative Jews to change, or at least open the discussion, on gay marriage/partnerships. Everyone I know coming out of rabbinical school in the past 10 years supports synagogue sanctioned monogomous relationships; we just have to wait for the older generations of biggots to die out.

One point of contention to Ayelet's article -- sorry, California is not the bluest of blue sates, you have a big Republican governor. That would make Illinois much more blue.