Procol Harum Foretold There’s TWO Sexes?

Letter to Ephesians: The meaning behind Keith Reid’s 1967 iconic “Lighter Shade of Pale” is still debated whether it’s about a couple’s debauchery, doping or mood swing. In today’s legal debate over what IS a man & woman, it might be argued as a trans romp …

Personally, I think “Lighter Shade of Pale” wasn’t meant by Reid to capture any of the above. More on that in a bit. But the song & debate came to me upon reading about US Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito asking an ACLU lawyer during oral arguments in a recent gender discrimination case, “What is a man and a woman?” The ACLU attorney replied she didn’t have a definition for the Court & implied it wasn’t relevant. Alito then posed how is he supposed to tell whether there’s sex discrimination being perpetrated for equal protection purposes if he doesn’t know what the definition of the sexes is? Or, more pointedly, how many sexes there are? Two as the Bible folks insist? Or as many stars there are in the sky as the wokesters hope so their “legal rights” are endless to better fit their endless (and malleable) progressive narrative?

For most of America’s 250 years, the legal definition of the sexes has been assumed to be TWO, male & female, although “sexual preference” has at times been understood to be something more like a Lighter Shade of Pale. As the Procol Harum song itself seemingly prophesized in its concluding verse about how a woman’s “ghostly face” turned even lighter while spinning on the dance floor, as if that were scientifically (or artistically) possible: “She said, ‘There is no reason and the truth is plain to see … And although my eyes were open, they might have just as well been closed.’” You be the judge.

Davd Soul