They're promoting marriage of an institution, but their version of marriage is a hetero-centric definition. By promoting their version of marriage, they ARE excluding the GLBT community.
Well, no. No they aren't. They're encouraging people to get married, but the campaign will be run in Massachusetts and Vermont and DC and California and other jurisdictions offering gay marriage or "equivalents" just as much as it's run anywhere else.
Their precise definition of marriage is wholesale irrelevant, and I'm unconvinced it's heterocentric to begin with.
Do you really think that in the ad campaign, they are going to represent anyone other than heterosexuals? If they don't, then the marriage they are "selling" [for want of a better word] is that of heterosexuality. Even being run in those states, it isn't enough to make them un-heterocentric. They are still appealing to the young, heterosexual, adult population of those areas.
So glad to know that my friends who don't even want to think about it are being encouraged to get hitched young with my fucking tax dollars, when I fucking can't even though I desperately want to.
EDIT: Also, anyone else seeing something slightly wrong with the numbers here: "...$100 million a year for marriage-related programs and $50 million a year supporting fatherhood programs."?
A. Don’t we have better things to spend our money on? Like creating jobs? B. My young 22 year old self will be getting married once two conditions are met. These conditions are as fallows: 1) I move back to my city. 2) My gay brethren can be legally married in my city. C. Can’t the government just mind it’s own business? Why on earth does it care if/when I get married?
Heh, it's okay! We're in agreement, anyway. (Well, sort of. I'd be one of the "gay brethren", I think. Is there a feminine equivalent term to brethren?)
I don't plan to ever get married - the caveat here being that this may change in the future when I'm older and settled and have different priorities, and I am aware of this (although I refuse to marry even under these circumstances until gay marriage is legalized) - but if I never do, whom does it hurt? My children? The ones I don't plan to have? If I cohabit with a monogamous partner who, say, has children from a previous relationship, and raise them with my partner, in what way is this situation damaging to them, me, or my partner? If I cohabit and never have children, or date long term, or short term, or swing, or live alone with a cat all my life, what does it matter?
I don't understand. Why does the government want me to marry? Why are these numbers supposedly threatening? Since when has marriage not been optional?
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Their precise definition of marriage is wholesale irrelevant, and I'm unconvinced it's heterocentric to begin with.
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ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE
So glad to know that my friends who don't even want to think about it are being encouraged to get hitched young with my fucking tax dollars, when I fucking can't even though I desperately want to.
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Also, anyone else seeing something slightly wrong with the numbers here: "...$100 million a year for marriage-related programs and $50 million a year supporting fatherhood programs."?
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B. My young 22 year old self will be getting married once two conditions are met. These conditions are as fallows: 1) I move back to my city. 2) My gay brethren can be legally married in my city.
C. Can’t the government just mind it’s own business? Why on earth does it care if/when I get married?
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I don't plan to ever get married - the caveat here being that this may change in the future when I'm older and settled and have different priorities, and I am aware of this (although I refuse to marry even under these circumstances until gay marriage is legalized) - but if I never do, whom does it hurt? My children? The ones I don't plan to have? If I cohabit with a monogamous partner who, say, has children from a previous relationship, and raise them with my partner, in what way is this situation damaging to them, me, or my partner? If I cohabit and never have children, or date long term, or short term, or swing, or live alone with a cat all my life, what does it matter?
I don't understand. Why does the government want me to marry? Why are these numbers supposedly threatening? Since when has marriage not been optional?
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