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glad not to be on the Book of Face
Jun. 26th, 2013 03:12 pmNot the first time I've expressed that opinion, but doubly glad today, for a friend who is on FB told me it's basically exploded over the SCOTUS decisions regarding the non-preservation of exclusively m/f marriage. I'm pretty sure there are relatives and people I actually like otherwise that I would have to block or defriend (de-like?) over this. Some things we were not meant to know about the inner thoughts of people we like and love offline.
I don't think same-sex marriage in the USA will be a cakewalk from here on - there will still be challenges to it, there will still be prejudices leveled at these people hidden behind something else (or hell, just open in areas that tolerate that kind of backwards behavior). It's actually quite a shallow change, since the hard work still exists of bringing most of the protesting minority (the under 50 percent still against same-sex marriage) around - look at how long the Jim Crow laws and practices went on (are going on?) after the federal amendment ratifying that all human beings are actually human beings. And let's not think just because the Supreme Court ruled on something that that means it will never be seen as fair game to be challenged there again or keep batshit legislators from trying to enact laws counter to the decision *coughfemalereproductiverightsCOUGH*.
But, you know, it is one step closer to anti-gay sentiment being placed, in time, up on the dusty shelf with anti-black, anti-Irish, anti-Chinese, anti-etc. laws to be seen as antiquated, dunderheaded, perplexing - and, most importantly, ILLEGAL.
I don't think same-sex marriage in the USA will be a cakewalk from here on - there will still be challenges to it, there will still be prejudices leveled at these people hidden behind something else (or hell, just open in areas that tolerate that kind of backwards behavior). It's actually quite a shallow change, since the hard work still exists of bringing most of the protesting minority (the under 50 percent still against same-sex marriage) around - look at how long the Jim Crow laws and practices went on (are going on?) after the federal amendment ratifying that all human beings are actually human beings. And let's not think just because the Supreme Court ruled on something that that means it will never be seen as fair game to be challenged there again or keep batshit legislators from trying to enact laws counter to the decision *coughfemalereproductiverightsCOUGH*.
But, you know, it is one step closer to anti-gay sentiment being placed, in time, up on the dusty shelf with anti-black, anti-Irish, anti-Chinese, anti-etc. laws to be seen as antiquated, dunderheaded, perplexing - and, most importantly, ILLEGAL.
