If you have been paying any attention at all, you will know that the hot topic in the news right now is Gay Marriage and what has happened with California’s prop h8te.
In case you don’t know… California voters just changed their Constitution to take away CIVIL rights of a minority group. This is unprecedented and should be considered another black eye in this country’s racist & sexist history. Issues such as this should NEVER be put to a popular vote. In some states if you were to put segregation on the ballot it would pass.
It used to be against the law for two people of different races to marry. Something like 70 percent of Americans at that time were against it and it was outlawed in a good number of states. Thank jeebus for the courts because it was the courts that granted the right. It would have been a crime for Barack Obama’s parents to marry. WOW.
So.. I do think what happened in California should be and will be overturned.
The arguments against are tired and outdated. This idea that somehow by letting gay people marry it is going to destroy the fabric of society is ridiculous at best.
Back during my intolerant Republican days I used to have a somewhat sour opinion of the gay lifestyle. My arguments included the whole “marriage is defined as a union between MAN and WOMAN”, “god made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve”, “what’s next? man and beast?”, etc. etc., blah blah blah. I would suggest that children raised by gay people would see it as another life choice to make. This was before I figured out my religion was bullshit and there was no god. At least not the god religious groups talk about. I realized that what other people do and how they live their lives, is not of my business. OR IS IT YOURS. Who are you to regulate society?
Once I dropped religion… all my judgments of others went away. All my prejudices and preconceptions went out the window. I started to put myself in others shoes and thought, would I want someone telling me who I can marry or if I should carry a child to term. How would I feel if I were raped and became pregnant only to realize that I was living in a state where it was against the law?
All of these are morality issues created by religious ideals. Morality should NEVER be legislated. Keep your religion out of my politics. Separation of Church and State remember? These are the fundamental principles of AMERICA. ALL men are equal. There are hundreds of gods throughout history and just because ONE god, your god, says one thing, doesn’t make it true.
Until the day the sky opens up and miracles are performed and I hear A god lay down the law…. I am not going to take your word for it. That is YOUR fantasy, YOUR boogie man, not mine. Hell… if that ever happened there STILL would be people would would argue.
But for the sake of argument, if god is so against gay people, why are there gay people? Don’t you think this is one mistake he wouldn’t have made? Oh… being gay is a choice… riiiiiight. Why would anyone choose to be different and risk intoleration by fellow members of society? It’s becoming more and more the trusted opinion that a person is born gay and when they find the gene and/or prove through DNA that people are born this way… there are going to be a bunch of people who need to apologize and should feel ashamed of themselves. I am sure it will feel to them much like it felt to those who learned that the earth was indeed, ROUND.
But even if it were a choice… WHO CARES!? Don’t we have the freedom to make our own choices? Just as you have the freedom to worship whatever you like.
But you know… none of that matters because it is all about basic civil rights of a minority group now. And again, public policy regarding a group of people should NEVER be left to a vote by the people. I have faith though that times are changing and people will have no choice but to let gay people have EQUAL rights OR the courts will decide for them. There is no way that our system as it is set up will allow for people to be discriminated against. I hold that hope. This thing in California just awoke the sleeping beast and gay people are not going to take this shit anymore. I hope that we look back at this prop h8te as the straw that broke the camel’s back.
While I am at it… The Mormon Church should have their tax exempt status revoked. I heard they put up 20 million dollars to pass prop h8te and were making robo calls telling people how to vote. Let me get this right… the MORMON church is taking a morality stance… the mormon church?!?! This from a group of people who think marriage is defined as a man and ten women. A group who’s fundamentals are based on the word of ONE guy stumbling through the woods finding some plates (that only he could see) which gave him (only him) the word of god. How retarded are you people? Seriously…. people are born gay just as you were born stupid. Thank god!
How come these hot button issues always have religion at the root? And it always seems to come from the bible thumping non-thinkers who cherry pick obscure passages to validate their beliefs, YET at the same time ignoring more prominent passages that talk about everything from murder to incest. How come you pick and choose? Doesn’t bother you though that Noah and his offspring would have come as a result of incest? “Of course not silly… the story of noah is just a metaphor. “ Cherry picking bible thumper.
If you are religious and read this blog… please try and explain your position to me…. and explain it as if I were a child. Why does it bother you so much if two people who love each other, commit to each other? Who really cares of marriage is “redefined”?? How does this affect or hurt you?
But please don’t give me this crap about “redefining” marriage because it’s a 5000 year institution… or gods will. Marriage has been redefined so many times throughout history by straight people already. There used to be a time when marriage was a tool to acquire land and was left up to the father to trade his daughter away. If left up to gods will, Mormans would continue to marry ten wives regardless of their ages.
Gay marriage will only strengthen those families not harm yours. Children have grown up in gay households and they don’t turn gay. There are millions of unwanted children who could be adopted by loving families… gay families… Why is this wrong? Please explain to me as if I were a child.
It can’t be because children should have both a mother AND a father. I think we all would agree that ideally that is the best situation. A child should have it’s father or mother around. But that’s not real life. Real life we have single mothers, fathers, aunts & uncles, grandparents, all raising children. Remember… it used to take a village to raise a child. Even if it is the village people. ;) The only absolute truth is that YOUR marriage has less than a 50 percent chance now of making it. As the lead video suggests there is more of an argument to ban divorce than there is to ban gay marriage. Your divorces are harming society!!
And these “Civil Unions” are not good enough. There are basic rights being left out of civil union status. They don’t want more rights or new rights…. just the SAME rights. But you know… had there been proposal that made civil unions the SAME as marriage except in name, people would have no problem and this would be a non-issue. Instead you had to make this about religion and your arguments are outdated and flawed. And now I think, it’s too late. You religious people could have had that…. now your position is going make sure that marriage cannot be defined as between man and women because you cannot deny or take back rights. I think this prop h8te will turn out to be the best thing that ever happened for gay rights.
It cannot be said enough, you cannot grant a people a right, and then take it away. You cannot amend a constitution to discriminate. Again, this is unprecedented and the rule of law will prevail.
Gay people should have just as right to be miserable as the rest of us.
I could really go on all day but I could never say it as well as this,
Now how do you feel?
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