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Don We Now Our Gay Marriage...Wait? No Gay Marriage This Year Again?Let's take a trip into the distance past of... November 3rd, 2008. California and Florida all had a bill for the legalization of gay marriage up for vote. The majority of the country was shocked in horror that gay marriage was now illegal in California and Florida. And they weren't just shocked. They were PISSED. Many people in California protested for a repeal of Prop 8, or its loving nickname, Prop H8. Buzznet's own Mark and Rich were arrested for... protesting? I can't remember, but here's a blog/round-up on the entire ordeal. The repeal kept gay marriage illegal, but those married during the time when it was legal (i.e. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia DiRossi) would still have their marriage recognized by law. This year, the gay marriage ballot situation was somewhat the same, but a little different. Our stars this year were the state of Maine (which, like California, had gay marriage legal for a while) and my own home state of Washington. While Maine was going to hope to make it officially legal, Washington had a bill that I have mentioned before, where gay couple have all the rights heterosexual married couples do-sick leaves to take care of their partner, etc.-except for the right to call their partner their "wife" or "husband".
First, I don't get why anyone would vote against gay marriage, because the conservative ads against it are ridiculous. They act as if gay marriage will be the end of the Earth, and I don't think these groups want gays to look at each other cross-eyed. It really is disappointing that its so hard to let gay people have the same rights as heretos. Really Maine, is it that hard to let gay people when you already run the biggest sinfest we like to call LobsterFest? And yes, the Bible does say that seafood is wrong. Leviticus, anyone? The Bible also says not to wear wool, but what does nearly everyone do every winter? Therefore, quit with the Bible excuses. Because then we'd have to outlaw wool and seafood. Neil Patrick Harris wasn't kidding when he declared gay marriage will save the economy. Suze Orman, out lesbian and economic expert explained the entire thing on her show. Of course, some people would ask "But domestic partnership is legal across the country. Isn't domestic partnership basically the same thing?" To answer that, I'll turn it over to Lucy "Xena" Lawless:
Come next November 3, if you can vote and your state is putting gay marriage up for vote, I urge you to vote for it. If you can't vote, and/or your state isn't putting it up for option, then take it to the Net, and join Facebook groups, sign petitions, etc. Thank you for reading this.
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I applaud you.
This just really gets me so frustrated cause they're running out of excuses and are now relying on religion when the government is not supposed to have a religion.
But I guess if gay marriage is legalized the world will be awash with debauchery and sin and immoral children. And we can't have that.
What, it's seperate but equal! And that is SUCH A GREAT IDEA. I mean, that's totally original, right? It's not something we've done before and FAILED MISERABLY WITH BECAUSE HOLY SHIT THERE'S NO REASON TO DENY PEOPLE EQUAL FUCKING RIGHTS.
The vote in Maine even STATED that churches and officials would have the right to refuse to perform gay marriages if they were personally against them, so they don't even have the excuse of "THEY'LL FORCE THE CHURCH TO STOP STAY TEH GAIZE R EBIL!" So WHAT THE HELL?!
"Neil Patrick Harris wasn't kidding when he declared gay marriage will save the economy"
No. Marriage for anyone should totally be legal and its total bull that its not. But gay marriage will not magically fix the economy.& This is why I hate our goverment.
Obviously gay marriage will,however,cause the world to end and global melting.Duh.That is the only exuse left and I stand by it!
Oh, and as far as rasing children goes: considering how hard it is to adopt a child, odds are that if a gay couple fights hard for a child than they will take better care of said child than some maternal parents do.
By the way, this was a very well written post! ♥
I think it's also important not to assume religious people who oppose gay marriage and religion in general are necessarily the same things. The rules and commandments of the Old Testament, including Leviticus are "sins", but they are not mortal sins. The New Testament is all above love and acceptance. My point is that, these people don't oppose gay marriage because of religion per se, they're just picking and choosing parts to suit their own prejudices. There are plenty of other non-religious people who oppose gay marriage, and they voted on this too.
Also - gay marriage NOT save the economy. I'm sorry, but no amount of pseudo-economics will convince me of this. The whole problem stemmed from shittastically bad credit policy by banks and government regulators.
But, as time passes, forward thinkers become the majority (I refer you to the equal rights movement of Dr. Martin Luther King's time) and laws like this are repealed.
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Wouldn't they think that gays would, like, go to hell or something?