This is just my $.02. I don't mean to hurt your feelings, David Archuleta and Clay Aiken, but I gotta say what I gotta say. Today I saw this on a friend's status on Facebook:
"X supports Prop 8. And I still love, adore, and respect my friends who disagree with me."
And her friend's response:
"Can't say I feel the love or adoration while being reminded that I'm a constitutionally second class citizen... just like women used to be. Both based on religious beliefs, btw. God love y'all! :)"
Dr. Mr. Second-Class citizen. You are not asking for EQUAL rights, you are asking for SPECIAL rights. If you wanted to marry a woman, you would have the same opportunity as any other man to do so. You are asking to change the definition of an institution that has existed for thousands of years so that life for you will be more convenient. Sorry, but I think that's just about as f'd up as you telling you not feeling the love from your friend because she disagrees with you. Get over it. Let marriage be marriage, what it always has been, what God intended it to be. And get on with your bad self.
I know I sound like a bigoted, close-minded, uneducated, religious zealot, but I am none of these things. I, like you, have my convictions and I stand by them.
I still love my friends who disagree with me and I hope you love me, too. Maybe you don't like that I am Mormon, or that I dye my hair blonde, or that I hate your Debbie Gibson CD but we're still friends and there's still love there.
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Special rights, not equal rights. Bravo!
To me it's equal rights. To me it's like saying a black person wants special rights to drink with his black mouth out of our white water fountain. If he would just drink with his white mouth, then he would have the same opportunity as the rest of us. But he doesn't have a white mouth. And a gay man isn't straight. So glad I'm just bisexual and can do whatever I want!
I still love you (even if you are a close-minded, uneducated, bigoted, religious zealot).
I am one too.
Wait. You hate my Debbie Gibson cd?
There's a lot more than just the religious angle. You might enjoy this article detailing the secular case against same-sex marriage.
No, Sara, it's not like that. It's like kids wanting to use the teachers' lounge at the school, or boys wanting to use the girls' bathroom. It's like me wanting to be Canadian when I'm American. It's people wanting something that was not designed for them. It's me wanting to go into the temple when I don't pay tithing. THAT's what it is.
Ok, maybe not the last one, but still.
Well, except I don't think it's anything like those things you listed, but it's totally like what I said. And that's probably where each group will always sit. People don't tend to change their minds.
And I still love you.
And, Jesse, interesting link. Thanks for sharing. It provides some of the logic that my blond head is unable to articulate.
Excellent article! Because under the same logic, why couldn't cousins or siblings marry? It's discrimination. I like the bathroom thing too.
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