And then there were five...
May. 7th, 2009 07:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickTwo great bits of news this week, if you are a supporter of Gay Marriage.
The bigger one is that Maine has decided that they will allow Gay Marriage. The second, lesser, piece of news is that DC will acknowledge gay marriages done in other states.
I honestly have never seen where it's government's place to say that you two people who love each other and are devoted to each other, but you don't get the same rights (and responsibilities. If you don't think marriage isn't about responsibility too, you're doing it wrong) as these other two people who love each other and are devoted to each other.
I think there's alot of social wrongs in the world. I think it's utterly horrible that the family seems to be falling apart, that bullies are left to bully and hurt and harass until someone finally loses it and brings a gun to school, and that nobody can get a crackpot dictator out of Africa before he kills half his population, but Gay Marriage just doesn't make it onto the list.
I've seen no proof, ever, that Gay Marriage destroys society. I've seen no proof ever that two Gay Parents are somehow worse than two Straight Parents (especially given some of the LOVELY examples of Straight Parents I, myself, know!)
To me, the whole thing STINKS of small-mindedness and arrogance. Arrogance that your morality is The Only Way to live, instead of learning to say "Well, I don't approve of this, but it's not my place to say it should be outlawed."
And that, in a nutshell, is how I think a wise society works. We don't all have to love everything that those around us might do, we simply have to accept them and try to be respectful of them (so long, of course, as what they do isn't something that outright hurts people. I'm not saying we should accept psychotic murderers as they are. I'm talking about those who want to live the way they live and whose lives don't hurt each other.)
The bigger one is that Maine has decided that they will allow Gay Marriage. The second, lesser, piece of news is that DC will acknowledge gay marriages done in other states.
I honestly have never seen where it's government's place to say that you two people who love each other and are devoted to each other, but you don't get the same rights (and responsibilities. If you don't think marriage isn't about responsibility too, you're doing it wrong) as these other two people who love each other and are devoted to each other.
I think there's alot of social wrongs in the world. I think it's utterly horrible that the family seems to be falling apart, that bullies are left to bully and hurt and harass until someone finally loses it and brings a gun to school, and that nobody can get a crackpot dictator out of Africa before he kills half his population, but Gay Marriage just doesn't make it onto the list.
I've seen no proof, ever, that Gay Marriage destroys society. I've seen no proof ever that two Gay Parents are somehow worse than two Straight Parents (especially given some of the LOVELY examples of Straight Parents I, myself, know!)
To me, the whole thing STINKS of small-mindedness and arrogance. Arrogance that your morality is The Only Way to live, instead of learning to say "Well, I don't approve of this, but it's not my place to say it should be outlawed."
And that, in a nutshell, is how I think a wise society works. We don't all have to love everything that those around us might do, we simply have to accept them and try to be respectful of them (so long, of course, as what they do isn't something that outright hurts people. I'm not saying we should accept psychotic murderers as they are. I'm talking about those who want to live the way they live and whose lives don't hurt each other.)
