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Even though our nation’s military recently elevated an openly gay woman to the rank of general officer in a ceremony attended by her spouse, the bigotry of a dwindling minority of Americans remains entrenched in our courts and state legislatures. Children no longer play “cowboys and Indians” in our backyards, but the racism against indigenous Americans is palpable when it comes to parenting matters. Indeed, we are far from a “post-racial” America.
It could be easy to brush off Sylina’s complaints as the whining of just another desperate housewife who didn’t get her way, except that the issues at the heart of Buehne v. Buehne in Virginia speak to very large civil rights and constitutional matters. The judge in this case has allowed Sylina to suffer multiple day-long sessions of cross examination of her gay life, as if she spent every day in a rainbow-soaked sapphic orgy. For the record, Sylina has been in a long-term monogamous relationship.
The family court judge also permitted Sylina to be interrogated on her occasional participation in a sacred Native American sweat lodge ceremony — a day of fasting and prayer — as if it were a peyote-drenched magic carpet ride. One wonders if the judge likewise views Yom Kippur as an aberrant practice. She was also questioned at length about the burning of sage, as if it were any different from the use of incense in High Mass each week at every Catholic church in the world.
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