Well, I lied. I said I would post the other days of truth while I was in Vegas for the weekend, and I didn’t. I’ll make up for them at the end of the 30 days, but for organizational purposes, I’m going to keep doing the prompts that match the day of the month. It’ll just be easier for me.
Day18: Your views on gay marriage.
Oh this one is easy. I don’t even have to really think about it. I’m for it 100%. I don’t think anyone has the right to tell someone else who they can and can’t marry. Telling two homosexuals that they can’t marry each other is the same thing as telling two people with red hair that they can’t marry each other. It’s ridiculous. Your choice of husband or wife, whether they be male or female, has absolutely zero effect on my life. None. It doesn’t make my relationship any less or any more than it already was. I think if two people love each other and want to marry each other, it’s not my place, nor anyone else’s to tell them they can’t. I think they’re entitled to the same rights and privileges as I am. If I were a lesbian and wanted to marry my female partner, I’d be pretty pissed that I wasn’t allowed to (at least in most states/countries).
I have never been able to understand the viewpoint of people opposed to gay marriage. I’ve always tried to see an issue from both sides, even if I only agree with one. It makes for more intelligent debate, in my opinion. But this? I can’t see the other side of this. Opponents want to “protect” marriage because they feel gay marriage hurts or lessens marriage . How? Marriage is a promise, an agreement, a commitment, and technically, a contract. How does gender change anything? If two men make a business deal, does it make it less valid than if a man and a woman made a business deal? Or if two women did? That doesn’t make sense. Opponents say that the bible says homosexuality is wrong, and therefore homosexuals are deviants who should not be afforded the same rights as the rest of us. Aside from the fact that church and state are supposed to be separate (something that MANY people seem to forget), the bible also says a whole lot of other stuff that those same opponents don’t follow. I’d rehash that for you here, but Aaron Sorkin wrote the greatest scene in television history (in my opinion) on that same subject. Please enjoy:
Different doesn’t mean better or worse. It’s just different. If we were all the same, this world would be pretty damn boring. At least in my opinion.
I keep this ironic little tidbit off of FB, but I’ll post it here – the two people I know who have been the most vocal in their prop 8 support would not have been permitted to marry their own spouses (in most states) before 1964, when Pace V Alabama was finally overturned. One is a white woman married to a black man, the other a white woman married to an Asian man. The first one I’d stay polite to til the end, but the second I’d have no problem throwing her hypocrisy back in her face if she pissed me off enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pace_v._Alabama