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[thessalian]

Marriage is love.

Well, I know what the right-wingers are thinking -- "if we let them get married, we're condoning what they're doing!" Well, suck it up, sugar, 'cos it's already happening. Gay men and women, living together, being in love, and yes (you may want to cover your eyes at this point, you unenlightened fruit loops), having sex.

It's not unnatural; animals in the wild do it.

You want to cite biblical precedent? Actually pick the stupid book up and read the Sodom and Gomorrah bits. I hear how it more involved hospitality than any direct judgement on the act of buggery. Then go back to the parts about "love thy neighbour"; "hate the sin, love the sinner"; and all the wonderful stuff about God's forgiveness.

Oh, so you think it's just plain icky. Right. Well, there's a lot of stuff I think is icky. I think spousal and child abuse is icky. I think child molestation and associated pornography is icky. I think war, terrorism, murder and random mugging of old ladies and such is icky. I think rape is icky. But most of all, I think prejudice, racism, sexism, antisemitism and blind hatred of that which is not understood is icky. Hell, I don't think it's just icky -- I think it's wrong. I think the true evil is not understanding that others, whatever their colour, religion, nationality, gender or sexual orientation, are human too, with the same basic right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All men (and I speak in the sense of the race of men) are created equal. If you prick them, do they not bleed? If you poison them, do they not die? Do they not love as other men? And should it matter if that love is for a member of the opposite sex or not?

Which brings me back to the point. Love is love, and whether you're religious or not, love should be celebrated and accepted with open arms. The ceremony isn't entirely incidental -- it's a statement to the world: "I love this person and want to declare my intention to spend the rest of my life with them to the entire world". But the legal ramifications of marriage shouldn't be ignored either. If a gay man loses his partner, should he then be subjected to seven shades of probate hell just because there's no legal tie to their joint belongings? Why should he lose his home -- the home he shared with the love of his life -- because the law won't recognise him as his lover's next of kin and wants half of the property to go to the 'real' next of kin? In what warped and twisted world is this reasonable?

So yes. I support gay marriage. And I'll get off my soap-box now.

Comments

YES!!!

[50ftqueenie.livejournal.com]

*Stands up and applauds Thess*


There are so many reasons to hate in the world why the hell do people always pick the stupid ones?

[live4lyfe.livejournal.com]

*grin*.... the articulation skill you've got going on is something I admire greatly.

*clap clap clap*

[jemjabella.livejournal.com]

"It's not unnatural; animals in the wild do it." - I had a gay rabbit once. Him & my male guniea pig where at it like, well, rabbits. We all found it amusing. *ahh, memories*

"unenlightened fruit loops" - what..?

I have to say, your post is very well worded & one of the best explanations for being FOR gay-marriage i've seen in a long while. Hooray.