D_Percy_Prettywillie
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There are two pertinent things I'm going to respond to from above since I can't multiquote it the way I would a post that was formatted differently. If I leave something important out let me know.
1.) Idealistically, the government would have nothing to do with marriage. There would be no tangible benefit to entering into that contract with another person. There would be nothing granted to you in terms of favorability for loans or adoptions, in terms of whom you were allowed to visit in the hospital, in terms of revisions to the way your taxes were paid, in terms of your credit rating, that wouldn't or couldn't be granted to an individual. Marriage, in that scenario, would be just like any other religious practice- engaged in by those of a particular faith- no different than say, a Bris (two scenarios wherein a man gives up part of his penis. : ) )
That's never going to happen though. Marriage is inexorably woven into the system and there's little to nothing that can be done about that now. So long as that's the case, what is granted to some, should be granted to all. If it's really not that big of a deal, tell the "defenders of marriage" to look at the statistics on how straight people have treated that oh so sacred institution, and then tell them to sit down and shut up- we do have other things perhaps more worthy of our national attention. For it to be considered just, however, what is granted to the majority must also be granted to the minority and that is the bottom line.
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3.) I can't find the link to the Sesame Street deal but it's Elmo and Hitler and that black guy and it's really funny. As soon as Youtube turns it up I'll pass it along.
JSZ
1.) Idealistically, the government would have nothing to do with marriage. There would be no tangible benefit to entering into that contract with another person. There would be nothing granted to you in terms of favorability for loans or adoptions, in terms of whom you were allowed to visit in the hospital, in terms of revisions to the way your taxes were paid, in terms of your credit rating, that wouldn't or couldn't be granted to an individual. Marriage, in that scenario, would be just like any other religious practice- engaged in by those of a particular faith- no different than say, a Bris (two scenarios wherein a man gives up part of his penis. : ) )
That's never going to happen though. Marriage is inexorably woven into the system and there's little to nothing that can be done about that now. So long as that's the case, what is granted to some, should be granted to all. If it's really not that big of a deal, tell the "defenders of marriage" to look at the statistics on how straight people have treated that oh so sacred institution, and then tell them to sit down and shut up- we do have other things perhaps more worthy of our national attention. For it to be considered just, however, what is granted to the majority must also be granted to the minority and that is the bottom line.
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I don't need their support. I don't support Nascar but it would be ignorant of me to try to put a stop to it because I personally don't like or understand it (and by "understand" I mean insofar as how people are entertained by it.) I don't want their "support." I want to be left alone, unfettered and unmolested, to live my life as I see fit right up to the point that doing so infringes upon someone else's right to do the same thing.
So, everyone who is not in support of homosexuality is ignorant?
You're right that my sexuality doesn't define who I am. In the eyes of the people who propose the legislation that would essentially be a government stamp of disapproval for my orientation, however, it does. They don't care about the rest of what constitutes me as a person, they only care that I'm gay, and that my agenda to subvert American culture be stopped. That's where I take exception to all of this.Your sexuality does not define who you are, and knowing that, there obviously cannot be laws or legislation discounting you as a person.
3.) I can't find the link to the Sesame Street deal but it's Elmo and Hitler and that black guy and it's really funny. As soon as Youtube turns it up I'll pass it along.
JSZ