There's no doubt that The Washington Post is a shadow of its former self, but every now and then it gives us a good read. Today's profile of a probate judge in Alabama — a conservative guy who's struggling with the whole marry-the-gays thing — is the latest case in point.
It's an interesting, fairly nuanced and blessedly neutral portrayal of a white Southern man who sees the world changing around him once again, and wonders what to do. Although he adorns his office with crosses (ugh), we cats don't really think he's a hater. By the end of the article, you're sure that, had Alabama's jackass Chief Justice not thrown a wrench into everything, Probate Judge Bobby Martin might have navigated marriage equality just fine on his own.
But at the same time, perhaps Martin's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. While he wrings his hands and tries to find a middle ground between his state's lunatic Chief Justice and the eager couples who show up at his door just wanting to get married, the judge unwittingly supplies the answer to his own dilemma.
“The country just outgrows things,” Martin says. “When you have people in the older age group, they have a hard time moving on and accepting things. But they die out, and then new generations are more broad-minded. We just outgrow things.”
Um, yeah. Here's to Roy Moore and his ilk dying out. Sooner rather than later, in fact. We cats PURR.
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