lame
My boyfriend and I sometimes talk about marriage. His eyes usually grow as large as saucepans and he lets out this little Homer Simpsonesque scream. But we’ve even figured out where it’s going to go down and it’s going to be low key. No big deal. To us, marriage is not that important. As straight people, we forget that marriage is not a privilege, it’s a right. We forget that there are people out there that cannot enjoy this right that we have each earned at birth. We talk about it like it’s no big deal. Or we talk about it like it’s the fairytale of our lives. Everyone does. Even same-sex couples who cannot legally be married because in the eyes of the law, and in the eyes of “God”, marriage and love is only to be between a man and a woman.
I don’t really care what gay people think of straight people supporting them, and I don’t really care what bigots think of me. But to me, everyone is entitled to get married. It’s a right, not a privilege. Who is to say that love between a man and a man is any different and less significant than the love between a man and a woman? How can anyone devalue love all together? How can you remove the right to get married from a person who loves someone who just happens to be the same sex as they are?
We’re all told we should love one another, and when we do we’re told that we can’t marry that person because of their race, religion or sexuality. I think if God was real, he would want us to love each other. Sure, he made the man and woman so they could “breed”, but even if they loved someone of the same sex, wouldn’t he be happy that his children just found someone to love and be loved? Isn’t that all we really want in this life?
I thought if California would vote No on Prop 8, disallowing same sex couples to be legally married, it would be a step forward for the Western world. Two steps forward, 10000 steps back - hey California?
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