I am sitting in the teacher's workroom bored out of my mind, but contemplating the inhumanity of humans to huma.....oh who am I kidding....I want a damn cookie! NOW! I don;t know why, but I am craving a chocolate chip cookie. And I am exhausted. This work thing....yeah...it;s like hard and stuff. But I will give it this, having nothing to do and being up this early gives me incentive to blog on a regular basis as opposed to once every two months. Too bad I can't say the same for my journal who is oft neglected like a toothless whore in some back alley.
So gay marriages and Massachusetts. GO MA..woo woo. It's a great time for civil liberties, albeit they are stirring the hornet's nest. But what is life without little yellow jackets stinging your ass every now and then. I said this before in a post, but I am in total support of gay marriage (and I hear my mother pondering my homosexuality as I type this...HI MOM!!). What it comes down to is this, marriage and sanctity are laughable, especially in light of those so sanctimonious that they can't see the altar through all their sound and fury. Yes, religion has been so closely connected to marriage that the inevitable homosexuality-is-wrong-in-the-eyes-of-God argument is always brought up. The fact is that it does not matter....don't mix your mythos with the ethos. The irony is that SOOOOO many "straight" marriages, many under the precepts of a "holy" marriage, end up in divorce. Divorce rates are astronomical for straight couples. Studies show, although it is hard to measure gay "marriage" statistics pre-MA, that gay couples last a lot longer. Something about struggling together through the quagmire of ignorance and prejudice tends to bring people to together in a stronger union as opposed to: yo babe, can I get yo numbah?
It is a basic human right for anyone to want to be "joined" in whatever marital bliss they see as fit and it is certainly no one's business to tell others what is right or wrong. Because honestly, there is no naturally inherent right or wrong, just some antiquated ideas based on a dusty book that serves as nothing more than imaginative reading. Can't pick and choose your laws people. You want to say homosexuality is wrong in the eyes of god, then check yourself because if you are eating seafood and wearing clothes of synthetic material, you are burning with the rest of the world you so despise.
Plus, consider that less than forty years ago, 72% of the American population was wholly against inter-racial marriages and sought to make those unions both illegal and punishable by prison sentences and/or death. Couples were lynched because they wanted nothing else but to love each other and have it legally recognized. Even then, zealots used the bible to condemn inter-racial marriages. Where does it end?
Gay marriage opponents sooner or later (usually sooner) make the claim that governmental approval of same-sex marriages will open the door to marriages among multiple partners, between close family members, between adults and children, between humans and animals, and so on (laughable I know). What gay marriage opponents (or "defenders of traditional marriage") don't acknowledge is that many of these challenges would go nowhere. Marriages to children or animals will remain out of bounds on the basis of statutory rape, consent, and animal cruelty laws that have nothing to do with marriage. In our society, we see high levels of divorce. Government policies already strain marriage with no-fault divorce, high taxes and "social safety net" legislation like Medicare and Medicaid, which loosen our dependency on the family.
Why begrudge people, ANY people, their happiness based on our own insecurities, ignorance, and fears. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who publicly supports same-sex marriage, says it best: they love each other just as much as anyone else ... Marriage has been undermined by divorce, so don't tell me about marriage. Don't blame the gay and lesbian, transgender and transsexual community.
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