Nov. 4th, 2009

veronica_rich: (McCoy and Sulu)
I'm still trying to figure out how letting two other adults create a legal contract to share their property and their lives impedes your ability to do the same.

Oh, wait, it doesn't - you're not impeded to any such thing. But they are.

I am of course referring to straight people who object to gay people marrying. In this day and age, I cannot believe there are still adults who don't understand that the legal contract of marriage is NOT the same as the religious ceremony of marriage. Plenty of straight couples are married without benefit of clergy, and legally bound. You don't want your church to conduct gay marriages? Fine. We have a little thing in the U.S. called separation of church and state - what you're objecting to is CHURCH. What these people are marching for are equal rights under STATE.

(Alternatively, I suppose we could establish Christianity as the official national religion. But then you all would have to start paying a 30 percent income tax, too, as well as business taxes.)

There are nonreligious people who object to gay marriage. But not many. Again, I say, why are you mixing legality with emotion?

Contrary to some dumbass (sorry, but it's accurate) assertions that equate gay marriage to marrying animals or children, it's not at all that. It's still keeping a legal contract between two consenting adults. Allowing gay marriage would cut down post-death court disputes, decreasing usage of tax money, and provide more legal, stable potential two-parent homes for foster and adoptive children who desperately need love and discipline to turn out decent adults.

Banning interracial marriage was wrong. Suppressing women from voting was wrong. Enslaving black people was wrong. Yet, at one time, EVERY SINGLE ONE of these things was legally - and morally - justified by our society. I hope our children and nieces and nephews look back on us in 50 years like we look back on the Jim Crow enforcers of the 1950s: Backwards and simplistic and afraid of what turns out to be a big nothing.

*sigh*

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