I wish the best for you (and the best decision for your state)! And I hope that more and more states will realize that gay marriage and other issues are about protecting and helping the people of this country, and not about religion.
Plus, as Prop 8: The Musical points out, if more people can get married, that's more money flowing into the economy, yes? ^^
As a bisexual in Texas, I'm counting on people in other states to pave the way - as my state is probably not going to be anywhere near the forefront of this political and religious conversation/debate.
Fortunately, it seems like the younger people are, the more okay they are with giving equal rights to everyone, so hopefully things are looking up. ^^
The "don't care" factor probably will kick in. It's kind of funny, when I read that I thought of my mom. She once told me she didn't like seeing people kiss other people of the same sex (grosses her out on tv), but she doesn't care if they do have the relationship and get married. It's not like it's going to badly affect her, so who cares what they do
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I think you're absolutely right, along the regards of "It's not all about marriage". I read this quote the other day, which was written in regards to feminism, but I read it imagining gay rights, and I think it's absolutely true:
The idea that [activism] should be kept under glass, broken only in case of a "real" and "serious" emergency, is predicated on the erroneous assumption that "the little things" happen in a void, as do, presumably, the "real" and "serious" things, when, in reality, they are interwoven strands of the same rope. [. . .] And, in a very real way, ignoring "the little things" in favor of "the big stuff" makes the big stuff that much harder to eradicate, because it is the pervasive, ubiquitous, inescapable little things that create the foundation of a [oppressive] culture on which the big stuff is dependent for its survival. It's the little things, the constant drumbeat of inequality and objectification, that inure us to increasingly horrible acts and attitudes.
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Plus, as Prop 8: The Musical points out, if more people can get married, that's more money flowing into the economy, yes? ^^
As a bisexual in Texas, I'm counting on people in other states to pave the way - as my state is probably not going to be anywhere near the forefront of this political and religious conversation/debate.
Fortunately, it seems like the younger people are, the more okay they are with giving equal rights to everyone, so hopefully things are looking up. ^^
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The idea that [activism] should be kept under glass, broken only in case of a "real" and "serious" emergency, is predicated on the erroneous assumption that "the little things" happen in a void, as do, presumably, the "real" and "serious" things, when, in reality, they are interwoven strands of the same rope. [. . .] And, in a very real way, ignoring "the little things" in favor of "the big stuff" makes the big stuff that much harder to eradicate, because it is the pervasive, ubiquitous, inescapable little things that create the foundation of a [oppressive] culture on which the big stuff is dependent for its survival. It's the little things, the constant drumbeat of inequality and objectification, that inure us to increasingly horrible acts and attitudes.
-Melissa McEwan
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