It really saddens me that so many people make a distinction between the civil rights of gay people and those of the rest of our citizens. It saddens me even more that people feel like they should be able to vote away the rights of others not to be treated equally under the law.
And I find it totally depressing that people have convinced themselves that, somehow, allowing two people to bind together as a family in the eyes of the law threatens their own idea of family, even as they are comfortable with divorce and interracial marriage (once forbidden).
It is okay if I literally destroy marriage by getting divorced, but it is wrong if I were to perpetuate family unity and economic stability by marrying someone of my gender. How does that make sense?
There will be a time in history in which Americans will be just as ashamed of the persecution and anti-gay laws we’ve enacted as we are over segregation.
*sigh*
The even sadder part is that clearly there are still plenty of people here who are not yet decently ashamed of segregation.
My best friend since I was a teenager is gay. When he first realized it for sure, he was even afraid to tell me. Imagine living in a society that is so intolerant of a basic thing about you that you cannot change, that you are afraid to tell your own best friend who you really are. I take all of society’s slights against the gay community personally, because my best friend is part of that community. The person he loves and shares his life with is part of that community. They aren’t asking for special rights. They are asking for the same basic human rights that many of us take for granted – to not be discriminated against because of sexual orientation and to be allowed to legally marry the person they love and have all the rights that come along with that. I don’t think our government she be allowed to regulate who we love and marry. Period.
Absolutely. Let’s try and outlaw divorce first, and see how people like that.
I don’t even have words for this yet.
Just the other day my sister asked me why i would want to come out to my parents, or include them in my life with Rachel. She said the reason she brought her husband around was because they were dating seriously and were going to get married and she wanted everyone else on a timeline with that. Since I’m never going to have that – why should I bother? Choosing to date someone forever wouldn’t have to be shared.
it came from such a place of anti-logic, I’m sorry to say that my words simply failed me.