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Defying gravity

Andrew Campbell always encourages me to think about things, no less this time an utterance I boldly share from his Facebook timeline. ------------ Prediction: Your TL will be full of reaction to the horror of the shooting in #Orlando insisting things must change. Nothing will change ------------ Andrew, you're wrong.  And you have to be wrong. No, we're not going to get a rational approach to gun ownership in the US, no we're not going to remember that personal choice in religion stops at the end of your pew or prayer mat, or that engaging in political hate is any better than any kind of hate. But I'll give you one change, Andrew. I'm moving "gay" from the last in the list of descriptors to the first.  I always thought that being a learner, a teacher, a mathematician, a motorcyclist, a Canadian, an auxiliary Constable came before defining myself by who I chose to love. But these fifty people were killed because of exactly that.  Now,  they were li...