Alright, in a week of happenings, I have thought to myself before that now I've heard everything but right now skipping thru the channels, I see Dr Kevorkian being released from prison after eight years , Pris Hilton is going back to jail?, the killer of that young woman in Overland Park has been identified, and then on Fox News Channel I see a snip-it of The O'Reilly Factor and a debate over California making a ruling on conjugal visits...visits now extended to, allowed for homosexual prisoners. OK, I love the sinner not the sin but this is a little too far. Although, I have never been in prison or know anyone except my step-brother who has been in prison and..after staying in a Holiday Inn Express last night and after watching the umpteenth episode of Dateline on Child Predators or an MSNBC docu-something on prison life in-depth from the prisoner point of view...I have come to the...I am sure albeit misguided conception (pardon the pun) that its not like the homosexual doesn't get enough action in prison as it is...now he/she has a legal right to conjugal visits...
Here's what I have learned about the word conjugal. The definition of conjugal is: con·ju·gal [kónjəg’l] adj relating to marriage: relating to marriage or to husbands and wives. In addition to this there are con·ju·gal rights defined as: npl right of spouses to sexual intercourse: the rights that husbands or wives are entitled to in a marriage, especially the right to have sexual relations with their spouse. And finally there is the con·ju·gal vis·it: (plural con·ju·gal vis·its) n private visit of prisoner’s spouse: a visit to a jail by the husband or wife of a prisoner, during which the couple is allowed some privacy, for example, to allow them to have sexual relations. By the way since I keep copying these definitions from "Word", I guess I should tell you these definitions are brought to you by: Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. OK, now that's out of the way back to my point.
Although there are a lot of homosexuals in California...I am not aware that the state of California recognizes same sex marriages...but I guess they do recognize the right of domestic partners in co-habitation. Even though that may be true, I am still unclear on how can they make the jump to conjugal visits for homosexual prisoners. All I can say is Wow! I just don't know what else to say. Somebody say something! Any comments from the peanut gallery are welcome...
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