I Am Surrounded By Ichthyophobes And Anthropophobes

This article from Salon mentions a movie called "The Siege of Western Civilization," directed by Herb Meyer. Meyer was vice chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council under President Reagan. Here's how Meyer explains his political perspective:

There are those who wish to turn us from a Judeo-Christian into a secular culture. This really is a kind of civil war. This is not normal politics. We are two cultures in one country. That's never happened before. I'm not sure we can survive where half of us think marriage is between a man and a woman and half think a man can marry his goldfish.

All I can say to Mr. Meyer is: don't knock it until you try it! I've never been happier since I married my wife Carol, who is two inches long and weighs an enticing 1/4 ounce.

The only difficult part is that -- while we knew we'd encounter humans like Meyer -- we did not anticipate the intolerance we would face from the other side; ie, the goldfish community. You'd think in this day and age everyone could see past the color of a man's skin and/or his lack of gills. Unfortunately, goldfish tend to be quite culturally conservative, particularly those from smaller ponds. I can't count the number of times I've been told, "If God had wanted goldfish to marry humans, he wouldn't have made it absolutely impossible for them to have sex with each other."

Granted, some of this backlash is my fault. When Carol's family put up resistance to our betrothal, I angrily told her father I wouldn't let him flush our love down the toilet. In retrospect that wasn't the most felicitous way to put it.