Gay Marriage and Mick Jagger

I’ve always been in favor of gay marriage. How could I not be? Gay marriage means gay divorce and gay divorce means more work for lawyers. I’m in favor of any law that can create more work for lawyers. Shutting out partners in time of illness always seemed to me to be cruel and mean. That defect could have been cured without opening the doors to marriage, but if the gay community wants in, so be it. In one Saudi case, a woman asked for political asylum in the UK because she faced persecution in Saudi Arabia because she is a lesbian. Asylum was granted. After a while, she decided that she wanted to be a mother. She asked a male gay friend to assist, and he provided the seed which was administered medically. I poin† this out only because in this fashion, there was no violation of the Islamic shari’a. In Saudi Arabia, artificial insemination is perfectly legal. In due course the baby was born. The donor claimed that he had rights to the child. His partner did as well. Mom was unhappy…