16 may 2008.
as easy as it is to be distracted, in general terms, it's hard to distract yourself willfully. i have two eyes and a heart on the west coast, and it's hard to work, and live, and focus.
queer-folk can marry in california, and i'm happy about that. i like watching these efforts for the ballot initiative to alter the state constitution. it'll never pass. i like watching the conservative pundits who say that it undermines the concept of marriage, which is so sacred that it ends over half the time.
i also like watching the argument made on the other side that we don't need marriage. we don't need it! it's a religious concept, and we are not a religious people. more importantly, we do not need to be like them. no, no, no.
this is eclipsed, in my eyes, by the fact that, despite the valid sociological discourse, i should be included in a normative, should i choose. the choice should exist for me to get on one knee--yes--and pour my heart out. the choice should exist for me to spiritually, legally, uniformly be his. and, sure, there would likely be no difference if gays could have civil unions that have every single legal protection of marriages, but i don't need a separate-but-equal status. because the separate will always coexist with the but-equal.
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queer-folk can marry in california, and i'm happy about that. i like watching these efforts for the ballot initiative to alter the state constitution. it'll never pass. i like watching the conservative pundits who say that it undermines the concept of marriage, which is so sacred that it ends over half the time.
i also like watching the argument made on the other side that we don't need marriage. we don't need it! it's a religious concept, and we are not a religious people. more importantly, we do not need to be like them. no, no, no.
this is eclipsed, in my eyes, by the fact that, despite the valid sociological discourse, i should be included in a normative, should i choose. the choice should exist for me to get on one knee--yes--and pour my heart out. the choice should exist for me to spiritually, legally, uniformly be his. and, sure, there would likely be no difference if gays could have civil unions that have every single legal protection of marriages, but i don't need a separate-but-equal status. because the separate will always coexist with the but-equal.
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