So when do I get to vote if heterosexual couples should be able to marry?
Political post. Skip if you don’t want to hear it.
As much as the electoral college has come under fire in the last, oh, nine or so years it’s there for a reason and the recent votes in California, Washington and Maine prove it. The votes are hairline, almost completely split at 50/50. See the thing is I don’t think the vote is speaking for the people. I think a very vocal minority has bullied the state and made it their obligation to try to determine the morality of the masses.
So, this brings me to two points. One: Hey GLBT community, did you show up? Did you vote? Because a small slice of people can’t win this fight for you. You have to step up and fight if you want these rights. (Which you should have, but change takes time and persistence, not dismissing it for someone less busy to do.)
Two: This is yet another place where the system fails. Morality shouldn’t be a matter of public opinion. The public will never agree on such things. This is where it is the job of judges and lawmakers to step in and say WTF are you idiots thinking.
I really don’t understand the fight against same sex marriage. I can go out and marry a child molester, or a murderer, or a wife beater. There are far, far worse things out there than two women or men in a loving relationship. The masses would hit the fan if lawmakers proposed an amendment that made a jury of their peers decide whether a hetero couple could get married or not. In fact people who disapprove of a couple’s choice to marry are commonly told to go shove it. So how is this different? How is this anything more than one segment of people deciding how the others should be allowed to live their lives?
Same sex marriage is not a matter of criminality. It’s a matter of religion and, well, a bunch of fuckheads trying to force their morals on everyone else. (BTW, I have friends against gay marriage. I still think they’re fuckheads for it, even if they’re still my friends.) The flipping Quakers think that gay marriage should be allowed, when did we fall behind them??
Anyway, it’s ridiculous. Absolutely. At the very least lawmakers should consider the boost that same sex marriage would bring to our faltering economy. People spend as much on weddings as on cars, and sometimes even on homes. Instead of cutting services, support and medical care why not improve the area by allowing a basic right to extend to all people, not just the people an out of date religion approves of.
Not long ago a judge in Louisiana refused to marry an interracial couple. The outrage prodded him to resign. Because an individual doesn’t have the right to override the choice of a couple to marry. Unless that couple doesn’t equal a penis plus a vagina.
