Watching Mary Poppins... hey Julie Andrew won an Oscar for it.
So I read the USA Today article that profiled gay rights views in Kansas. Horribly written. Instead of painting a representative picture of those who support, oppose and don't judge gay rights in the state of Kansas, it showed us a sort of Picasso, off-kilter group, overwhelmed by right-wing religious people. Now, that may portray the demographic
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This is a country that was founded on the principles of freedom and equality for all. Granted, it would be dumb to not to note the hypocracy of the founders who proclaimed equality for all but denied the vote to the masses. Equality for all, but not blacks, keep slavery. Even the puritans (a people so uptight even the British kicked them out!) coming to America to seek religious freedom but denying, condemning, and killing anyone who sought to pursue a non-puritan religion. So despite the fact that the country was founded on the principals of equality historically and in general people are quite willing to ban people whose views differ from their own, despite professing a belief in equality for all. AP gov't is interesting I tell ya.
Lets not forget the blacks, despite even having constitutional amendments passed guaranteeing them equal rights, the south blatently violated that for over 100 years before the situation got close to a resolution. And that whole seperate but equal thing, belittles and turns people into 2nd class citizens w/out the seperate but equal rights they were promised. Is there pure equality? No. But we still should strive for it regardless, strictly from a middle ground of equality for all.
I remember some philosopher being quoted saying something to the effect of "I might not like what you're saying, but I'll give my life to defend your right to say it."
And people seeing marriage as sacred, (to quote george carlin), BULL SHIT! People don't take it as seriously as it should be if the divorce rate is at 50%. Not to mention everything else. Premarital sex, extra-marital affairs, cheating even before folks are married, quite a few people don't take the marriage commitment, or even commitment to one another quite so seriously. While I don't think churches should be forced to marry people they don't think should be married (straight or gay), the government should at least grant equal footing for everyone, regardless of their oreintation. Race was the old segregator, today it's sexual orientation. You just take it more seriously when you know someone I suppose.
Sorry this was so long, I was hammering a lot of ideas out of my head.
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