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First, who am I to tell somebody that they can't be happy or couldn't be good parents, etc. Love is love whether you like playing with funbags, or taking it in the pooper.
So I've been watching the coverage of the defeat of Prop 8 in California, and while I can't say I'm suprised, there's no way I can agree with the defeat. Of course the religious nutjobs were behind the Amendment (I think it was the Mormons, wasn't it)--and granted the people of my favorite state voted it down--I just wonder how things would have been in a world where intolerance wasn't so widespread... Equality is a tough thing for me to grasp, but remove religion from the picture, and where would we be? State-sanctioned Domestic Partnerships for men/women, women/women, man/man... Sounds good to me. Separate church and state, and get the state issuing Domestic Partnership Licenses to EVERYBODY. Let the Religulous (stil haven't seen the movie) nuts keep their 'Marriage'.
I mean I think that ultimately it's an argument over semantics. Same-sex couples want to keep their the right to 'marry' which the pro-family/religious people define as man/woman. Some same sex couples wouldn't be happy with 'domestic partnerships', and 'equal protection under the law' (which a large large number of religions fanatics are against too, obviously, which steps beyond the their definition of marrriage) simply because of the word. They see it as 'not equal' because of the traditional/religious definition. They see marriage and equal protection under the law, although they're the same, as being different. Some people say they should be happy with that, but I won't latch on to that. Sometimes equality involves calling an Apple an Apple.
I'm a white, straight guy. I don't have a dog in the race, but it invokes thought... I'll leave it at that for it.
So I've been watching the coverage of the defeat of Prop 8 in California, and while I can't say I'm suprised, there's no way I can agree with the defeat. Of course the religious nutjobs were behind the Amendment (I think it was the Mormons, wasn't it)--and granted the people of my favorite state voted it down--I just wonder how things would have been in a world where intolerance wasn't so widespread... Equality is a tough thing for me to grasp, but remove religion from the picture, and where would we be? State-sanctioned Domestic Partnerships for men/women, women/women, man/man... Sounds good to me. Separate church and state, and get the state issuing Domestic Partnership Licenses to EVERYBODY. Let the Religulous (stil haven't seen the movie) nuts keep their 'Marriage'.
I mean I think that ultimately it's an argument over semantics. Same-sex couples want to keep their the right to 'marry' which the pro-family/religious people define as man/woman. Some same sex couples wouldn't be happy with 'domestic partnerships', and 'equal protection under the law' (which a large large number of religions fanatics are against too, obviously, which steps beyond the their definition of marrriage) simply because of the word. They see it as 'not equal' because of the traditional/religious definition. They see marriage and equal protection under the law, although they're the same, as being different. Some people say they should be happy with that, but I won't latch on to that. Sometimes equality involves calling an Apple an Apple.
I'm a white, straight guy. I don't have a dog in the race, but it invokes thought... I'll leave it at that for it.