So, if anyone hasn't heard, proposition 8 was passed. Proposition 8 is a law in California that rescinds the right for gay marriage. Basically, some idiots in California decided that love has to have rules. I am extremely outraged that anyone in this world is ignorant enough to tell someone who they can and cannot marry.
This law kind of reminds me of Noah's Arc, how people are being herded two by two. Except those people don't have the choice of being herded with their own kind. They have to be herded with a different animal because some idiot with a big stick said so? I mean, we are basically being told who we can be with. That two women who are deeply in love can't express their love and become married.
What's next? Are we going to be told that we have to marry our own race? That a Caucasian can't marry an African-American?
I fully believe that anyone, including the Govenator, who belives that someone's love has to fit a certain mold, hasn't seen the purity of love that can exsist between two women, or two men.
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The State of California has launched its self into an ugly fight, I would hazard a bet that this one is going to the Supreme Court. The stupid thing about all this is that the answer is very simple. Marriage is a religious institution, and as a religious institution no law-maker worth their weight in laws should touch anything related to this topic with a ten foot pole. One of our Prime Ministers, Pierre Elliott Trudeau said it the best, governments have no business in the bedrooms of the people. The governments business is making laws that help to equalize the differences, to help make things fairer. If a couple wants to proclaim their commitment to each other, then the government should assure that all the benefits and obligations of all couples are fair and equal, period. As far as being in the marriage business, as I said, its a religious institution and as such governments have no business deciding anything involving marriage.
Now the other side of the coin is that marriage is a religious institution. You will often hear about this church or that church debating whether or not they will perform gay marriages, and just as often somebody is fighting with them. Get over it, if your religion won't allow gay marriage and you believe it should, simple, find a new religion. Just for chuckles, you could even start one, RIGHT NOW ! Think about it, you could be out there right now performing weddings, baptisms, or any other religious ceremony you can think of, or invent. Its your religion, you could even write you own “Bible”. You could avoid eight o'clock classes on religious grounds. You could be making a few bucks on the side performing these services, marry all your friends, either as couples or a group, gays, straights, bi's all happily joining in marital bliss, and you did it. You could get dressed up or go naked, bring a fancy book (Caps and Spelling) to do readings from, people would address you with a neat nick-name like Shaman, Padre, Grand Wizard, the list is endless, it would be fun. Not to mention the tax shelter you would be able to create. If your interested in becoming an ordained minister check out this web address http://www.wikihow.com/Become-an-Ordained-Minister-Online, and go from there.
Well said! I love all the colours you used in this blog, too. I think it's really sad that after so many years of (somewhat slow) social change; women being given the right to vote, the end to slavery.... that society has taken such a gigantic step backward. I'm definitely not proud to be a part of a human race that enlists those kind of restrictions on their OWN people.
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