Since I'm in a complainy mood today, let me just throw in one more.
I'm getting awfully sick of people bitching that gay marriage is a stupid right to agitate for because "gays already have civil unions and that's good enough." No, it isn't.
It annoys me even more when somebody decides to defend this bullshit by stating they're uncomfortable messing with religious rituals, as if marriage is nothing more than a promise made in a church, with value only in the eyes of Jesus.
This argument makes a lot of sense if you lose half your damn brain and forget that marriage is a federally recognized legal contract between a man, a woman, and the IRS. Why else would divorce require lawyers instead of turning around three times and saying "get thee fucked with thy homewrecker" before spitting through your fingers at the foot of the cheating bastard/bitch?
The Big Sky Daddy may or may not even RSVP--it's still going to be a marriage. Atheists get married every single day. Does that mean they're only in a civil union?
Do you really think keeping one narrow definition of one damn word sacred is really worth all this fuss? I don't.
Tell you what, let's not have gay marriage after all. Instead, let's invite the Mormon church to send checks to all the homosexuals they've helped to royally screw over this election year. That way, they can afford to hire lawyers and spend a few weeks going through and signing all the papers required to bestow the 1000+* partnership rights and responsibilities which are instantly granted to any man and woman in Las Vegas who happen to drink too much at the casino bar.
Then we can all live happily ever after, separate but equal, just the way God intended.
*Void where prohibited by blue laws.
November 15, 2008
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Separate but equal is exactly it. It pisses me off. People would never be caught dead saying that separate but equal is okay in terms of race, but they love to spout a bunch of crap about how it's okay for everything else.
ReplyDeleteI think instead of being Jim Crow laws we should call them something new. Ian McKellan laws? Ellen DeGeneres laws? Hmm...
Corenna
Sorry, you can only have five eighths of a marriage.
ReplyDeleteIT'S COOL, THIS IS CONSTITUTIONAL, RIGHT?
I tend to say that we shouldn't have legally-recognized same-sex marriage. Or legally-recognized opposite-sex marriage. Let's just fuck the whole thing, let "marriage" be decided by individual churches, and have all the legal rights and crap shoved into one nice, handy piece of paperwork the happy couple can fill out easily. Like, as easily as a marriage license. The Fundies shouldn't be able to complain about that, right? Not unless they actually aren't worried about the sanctity of their own unions so much as theocratically oppressing the rights of others....oh, wait.
ReplyDeletesome kind of obscure rule back in the day found that separate is not equal under any circumstances, and that has not changed. There is no precedent for a difference in the legal relationships which can or cannot be granted. There is a precedent against such action.
ReplyDeleteThere is no precedent allowing for any kind of religious activity to influence the legislative policies of this country. In fact, there is a civil amendment stating we are free from such scrutiny.
you can not say in a legislature that you want to protect the SANCTITY of marriage, since it's very meaning is grounded in religious ceremony. What the government of the united states of america is doing can be simply summed up in one word: Treason.
Hell yes, whoa! I accuse the Government of the United States of America of commiting Treason against the people of the United States! There is LAW in place! There is PRECEDENT in place! There is LEGISLATION in place! There are no arguments which can refute this fact, the government have gone against their own past actions in order to strip the rights of peaceful individuals!
B-but Jesus said so!
ReplyDelete(Even though he didn't...)
Bwuhahaha.
ReplyDeleteI fuggin love you Zippomage.