And on top of that, Florida narrowly voted to move banning of homosexual unions into our constitution, which really pissed me off. I know it doesn't affect me directly, but it establishes a precedent that very well *could* affect me. It establishes (or rather, reaffirms) the notion that it is the job of the State to sanction or deprecate personal relationships. I don't recognize their authority to do that. My marriage isn't contingent on their recognition of it, and no one else's should be. My ideal solution would be to do away with the concept of civil marriage, and just move to gender-blind civil unions for the purposes of streamlining custody of children and the like. The upsides are that it takes the whole "m-word" off of the table to keep the theocrats at bay, and it gets rid of the idea that marriages are any of the State's business.
Oh, and chin up. Every year the percentage of people supporting gay marriage bans falls. We're moving in the right direction.
l2 adena
· 1 year ago
I think It’s mind-boggling to me. When Barack Obama was born, there were laws on the books in some states that would have prevented the marriage of his parents. Our next President, according to those laws, shouldn’t have ever been born. And you’re telling me you can walk into the voting booth to repudiate that idea, but you’ll look me in the eyes and tell me that the child I hope to raise someday shouldn’t be President, because his parents’ union is wrong and sinful and shouldn’t exist?
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Oh, and chin up. Every year the percentage of people supporting gay marriage bans falls. We're moving in the right direction.