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On gay "marriage" the issue really IS semantics. If you recognize gay “marriage” then you have to recognize them EQUALLY in ALL things on balance with straight marriages, including adoption and educational fiction books for kids in public schools. If they go for “Civil Union” or some other new word, they can then attack EACH equality issue one by one like making sure work benefits packages go to those civilly united in the same way they do for those married.
Civilly united might mean something besides “gay” and monogamous, too, like dependant brother and sister relationships. It doesn’t have to be about having committed sex. I think they are going about this all wrong and they might just be missing out … or maybe being sneaky by claiming it’s only about things like taxes, social security, immigration benefits, property rights and hospital visits and not really about all those other things not EVERYONE is ready to back away from.
Let me over simplify: Assume the letter of a law written in 1920 read specifically (this is fiction but not off track), "Only married couples shall be eligible to adopt children." If gay "marriage" becomes recognized because reasonable thinkers vote it in thinking it's a movement toward "things like taxes, social security, immigration benefits, property rights and hospital visits" then reasonable thinkers will have been duped into voting FOR gay "adoption" when really they only wanted to vote for gay "marriage". That's why it's semantics. That's why the movement needs to begin with a term like "civil union" and then get that term recognized with each "right" sought. They won't get them all at once, so why let the baby be thrown out with the bath water? This is an emotional fight rather than a logical approach to reason. They won't change the moral make up of this country ... and many of us (regardless of basis for that moral make up) can get behind certain elements of this movement. "
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Hey, there is NO way gay people should get out of the Hell of Marriage just because they are gay.
Just because you like your own type of giblets DOES NOT mean you can live a fancy-free life where the sex is always hot and there are no baby strollers to push.
Not only do they not HAVE to marry their sex-buddy roommate out of some antiquated notion of gentlemanly honor — they CAN NOT get married.
What is the gay community whining about? They've got it made with this marriage ban.
So next time you're out buying a Family Size tub of chunky Peanut Butter and Peach Wine Coolers at 1:15 a.m. on a Friday night, remember this, Tinkerbell: "You are never more free than when you have nothing to lose."
Be free. Be free for the rest of us. For the love of Adam and Steve, revel in your freedom. This is your Golden Age.
This marriage ban wall will come down, my bathhouse friends. Immediately thereafter, you will find yourself being emotionally badgered into buying a ring and ordering cake. Sex will become a weapon - leverage you will use to tear your relationship apart.
And then you will all be just like us hetro saps with our mini-vans, tube socks and cheap gin. Before you know it, the love of your life has gained 70 pounds and drinks himself to sleep on the recliner every night watching the Military Channel.
Be free. Fly high. Have wild, irresponsible, ecstacy-driven sex with 10 people you find attractive. This your time. These are the final days. Gay marriage acceptance is imminent. Hold on to your glorious gay singleness with both hands (but, please, mind the stepchildren).
(WARNING, adult content) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPvVnrV1tow
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