It is really sad that the issue of gay marriage has to go all the way to the Supreme Court. What was all that noise about being "home of the brave and in the land of the free?" Oh, we only bring that up right before launching one of our illegal wars, my bad. There is no logical reason gays should not be able to screw up their lives via marriage just like so called straight people do. I don't give a shit about who loves who or a "committed relationship" (whatever that's supposed to mean). Relationships ebb and flow, grow and change through time and splitting up should be easy as well. I care most about something lacking here and that's equal protection under the law. If two dudes living together want to adopt a kid and can handle the responsibility, why not? If a woman wants her life long partner to be there for a life and death decision in the hospital, who the fuck gives the hospital even the option to say no because they are not a "spouse" I'm sure there are more examples but these two come to mind. Now here comes the funny part. Are you ready?
This homophobia comes from those who claim there is too much government in our lives. These are the same people that need a defib every time "Obama Care" is mentioned. They're too ill informed to understand that this only reinforces the same business model of health care we now use. There are death panels as good Sarah told us but they are not what she thinks; rather they are the insurance companies killing us. On the business end are the anti-regulation types who believe it is fine to let banks and other business crash the economy and fuck up the environment. "Get government out of the way!" Banks laundering drug money? Runaway climate change? Selling poisonous drugs or other products? Nope. Hands off government! We're not a bunch of socialists here. So why the logical disconnect? Easy religion.
No one ever accused religion of being logical and you KNOW I'm not about to start. The Catholic Church is against gays marrying? Given recent history (and long ago history) why dose it matter what they think? Raping kids during the week and telling me how to live a good moral life on Sunday is something I'm going to take a pass on. Sure sure the guy you see on Sunday has never done such a thing. But what does he know of such crimes and what has he done about it? Why is he a part of an intuition that has knowingly hid child rapists and worse sent them on their merry way to continue their hideous crimes. This is not a team I want to be on and that's for damn sure. I find most religions to be pretty much bat shit crazy (Consider this and this). But hey this is America and you have the right to cling to the illusion of freedom, even religious freedom. Religion, no matter the flavor, has no place in law making PERIOD. We're pretty fucked up here but at least we don't yet live under a theocracy (yet). Believe what you want; God, Jesus, Mohammed, tree ferries, good witches, bad witches, or that Elvis died for our sins but leave those who feel differently alone. If you are against gay marriage simply marry someone of the opposite sex and let it ride. And don't tell me that Bill and Ted getting married will fuck up your marriage. If that's the case you got much bigger problems.
Next time- most likely gun nuts!
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