Question of the Week:
Why Can't Gay People Get Married?
Why can't gay people get married?
Good question, kidlets!
Good question, kidlets!
Hmmmmm....
Because when others eat donuts while I'm on a diet it makes me gain weight?
What's that you say? That's preposterous?
How strange, I just assumed that's the way it works since the opposition to gay marriage seems to suggest that the marriages of homosexuals will somehow erode the legitimacy of their own.
In that case, perhaps it's because if we let gay people get married my neighbor might marry his alpaca?
What? That's still preposterous?
How come? Is it because an alpaca is not a consensual human adult?
Meh - what's that little point have to do with such a popular comparison model?
Seems to me that some people are just huge fans of standing on the wrong side of history...remember these folks?
I dunno, in my opinion, the reason gay people can't get married is because a bunch of rich people who steal money out of our paychecks without asking and use it to blow up small brown children overseas are also in the business of telling us what we can and can't do in our personal lives. Considering the biggest argument against gay marriage is a religious one, I can't seem to swallow down why as a society we are still accepting such discrimination. I always thought there was a separation of church and state. I know the religious will often argue that allowing gay marriage is oppression of their religion by the state but I would argue that unless we're forcing religious people to marry others of the same gender no such oppression exists.
So, that there pretty much sums up my semi-inappropriate response to the chitlains. What would YOU say? Let a hetero know!
The way I see it?
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All I can say is that I happen to agree with you're answer 100%! (but you said it much better than I could have! LOL!!) The whole same-sex marriage issue is truly a religeous argument and should have no place in politics. But, our government seems to be Christian based, and not so much caught up with this time period. So until the younger, more open-minded generation takes over, the way it is right now stands. It's MY belief that it's up to us as parents NOW, to teach our kids to be socially, and politically aware, so we can hopefully see some serious changes made in this country. Our kids need to know they DO have the power to turn things around. And while I do believe that everyone is entitled to their own personal beliefs, the government should in no way be telling us who we can love and marry.
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DeleteWord, indeed. I think you're right on about the younger generation being the one to make the change. In my experience with my oldest I'm seeing that it's nothing for one of her friends to be gay or bisexual. There doesn't seem to be the same sense of deviance attached to it in her generation that there was in ours. I remember as a kid, someone calling a girl a dyke was some kind of big insult - these days, at least in my daughter's group of friends, someone speaking like that would be considered an asshole, and the insult itself would be less understood because many of her friends are gay and accepted.
DeleteI like your analogies and position on this. Gay marriage isn't allowed because some people believe it is wrong or immoral. Those people feel they are superior and want to control how people live. True freedom would permit us to live in a society that would allow us to marry any consensual adult we choose. Unfortunately, most people seem to hate freedom.
ReplyDeleteMy concern lies a lot with our job as parents to explain to children these concerns within our society. If I were in agreement with people that believe being gay is a sin then I would have to tell my child they were an abomination. I would have to tell my child that they are less than the rest because they loved someone of the same-sex. This would be damaging to a child's mental health and would most likely result in developmental and self-worth problems for the remainder of their life.
Sorry kid, you can't marry who you want to because lots of people hate you and think you're scum. Have a great day!
I always tell my son that just because someone is different than he is, it doesn't make them bad in anyway. I've been careful to instill in him that everyone deserves the chance to be judged for who they are, not who they love, or what color their skin is, or something else like that. Sadly, there are to many people in the world who, as you say, just want control over everyone else life, and want to feel better than those around them.
DeleteLOL! Jason, You're extreme. I don't think it's always out of hate - though I don't discount that it sometimes is (Westboro Baptist Dick Noses). I think for some it truly is about the fact that they feel threatened - their most fundamental beliefs being challenged by the status quo probably feels pretty ostracizing. Can't help but wonder how that feels to a group that gets angry when people want to say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas...
DeleteExactly. I have often wondered why the argument always seems to be based in religion, and the fact that God forbids it. If they are trying to remove the Pledge of Allegiance from schools because it has "Under God" in it, how can they justify that argument? And the other side, that it will destroy the sanctity of marriage. What sanctity is left in today's society? You have people that marry for a day or two, and then get divorced. You have the people that marry and then commit adultery over and over. No one believes that marriage takes work and dedication, they think it's going to be lots of fun, and when it no longer is, they opt out. And why does one group of people think it's okay to tell another how they are allowed to live their lives? Maybe we should start a movement to ban marriage between men and women, as well. Most people today look at marriage as a piece of paper that gives them benefits for being together. The number of divorces rises every single day as the generation that believes everything is about them grows up and doesn't want to give an inch in the relationship. If they don't get what they want, when they want it, they refuse to take any blame for any problems, and leave. I do not understand why any two adults who are in love, and are of sound mind and body, are not allowed to do something as simple as marrying. If we lived our lives today by every word of the bible, the world would be a much MUCH different place. No one should ever try to live someone else life for them. There is no way that gay marriage would actually HARM someone, so there is no reason that it should be illegal.
ReplyDeleteA-freaking-men. I mean seriously, how the hell can I even add to that? I love that you point out the tendency for the current generation to duck and run the moment their desires are not met. Obviously this doesn't hold true for all couples but there does seem to be this "give it to me now - I don't want to wait for it to upload/download/find itself and learn how to compromise" type of mentality. Reminds me of that great meme going around the internet where someone asks an old couple how they stuck together for the 6+decades they did and the answer is that they came from a time when people fixed what was broken instead of throw it away. You are absolutely right when you say if we're going to come from a society that tolerates 2 day marriages, surely we should be proud to be one that tolerates marriages that may well stay the course regardless of gender included.
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