Mehaul O’Leary

Whether you are for or against gay marriage, Vice Mayor Mehaul O’Leary and City Councilman Andy Weissman provide tempting reasons in their separate comments today to rethink your convictions.

My heart is with Mr. O’Leary, my mind with Mr. Weissman.

With rudimentary logic, the vice mayor argues persuasively that it is grossly wasteful for grownups thousands of miles from Washington to vote on a topic in which they emphatically have no voice and even less influence.

Happily, though, we do not live our lives exclusively on Logic Boulevard.

Before you were married – afterward is a separate discussion – surely you nuzzled and cooed in ways that would not sound mature if you were to stand on stage and detail them.

While right and wrong are the main signal lights we are obligated to obey as child and a adult, a vast playground beckons us between innocent fun vs. and somber, often funless maturity.

Andy Weissman

But if we only lived by right and wrong, only did what we were precisely supposed to do, if we never looked beyond the city limits, never utilized our imaginations, who would want to live past the age of 10? Not I.

Whether theatre, the arts, sports is your passion, you envision and thrive through the glamourous, emotional accomplishments of your favorite personalities.

Dodgers, the environment, the Black Lives Matter movement – if you don’t live part of your days through one of them, ‘tis a pity.