That was my catchy little phrase during the election - didn’t help did it? I guess I blame myself for it failing. The topic of Prop 8 is obviously a sore one with me. I have thought many times now what I would say on this site about it.
I respect people’s beliefs and opinions. If you voted McCain/Palin, good for you, do what you believe in. Whether I agree or disagree with you, you stuck to your ideals and beliefs.
But if you voted yes on Prop 8, I really don’t know what to say to you. I hate to be so close-minded on this subject, but to quote a 8 year old, “you did it first”.
The past week I’ve tried to address “Yes on Prop 8″ fans without being belligerent. I failed.
To tell people that they are not allowed to have rights that you have, that is flat out discrimination. I don’t care what you think about homosexuality, you are being a hateful bigot by saying “No. I’m going out of my way to say you are not allowed to have rights I have”. It’s disgusting, horrendous, and appalling.
For you religious fans, who like to hide behind the “protection” of marriage principles. First of all, we have this wonderful thing called “separation of church and state”. Homosexual couples aren’t fighting for marriage for religious rights, they’re fighting for their civil rights. Saying they shouldn’t be allowed to marry because they have “Domestic partnership”, how can you not see that as discrimination.
Secondly, I don’t want to hear anyone who hides behind their Christianity yet eats meat on Good Friday, doesn’t participate in Lent, doesn’t attend mass every Sunday, and is not actively trying to convert their Jewish and Muslim friends. Don’t say your religion is so sacred to you that you can’t allow gay people who do not affect your life to marry, yet you won’t do certain things in the bible because they’re “outdated” or “inconvenient”.
Let’s get to the juice of it tho, “protecting marriage”. Say what you mean out loud you coward, “Protect it from the gays”. To say you’re protecting marriage yet are not discriminating against homosexuals is not only a lie, it is an insult to everyone thinking they’re so stupid they won’t catch on to this anti-gay hate speech.
Finally, the children. This is the *big* argument. From “level headed” communities concerned about their kin. Oh protect the children. Look, your 2nd grader will not come home from school being told boys marry boys and girls marry girls and that they will end up gay. Stop overreacting. What you were told in school is what your kid will be told in school. Even as a young teen in sex ed class, did your class go over vows and the marriage process - they actually did not. Funny thing about that isn’t it?
And what really bothers me about our children learning about gay marriage - what is the worse that’s going to happen? Let’s say your 7 year old comes home from school and learns that boys can marry boys and their teacher is an absolute failure at teaching and doesn’t explain that boys can also marry girls. So the worse case, you’re stuck with a confused 7 year old. This is a problem because 7-year-olds are really so level headed and know how the world works in the entirety. Just ignore those Lysol commercials where 6-8 year old say things like “I’m a princess and princesses don’t catch germs” or “germs are this big” and holds up his fingers a centimeter apart, they’re lying, they really know what’s up. Savvy bastards…
So now you have a confused child on your hand. I’m so incredibly sorry you have to stop what your doing and explain that “it’s legal for 2 men or 2 women to love each other” in fluffy kiddy talk. Lord knows they never ask questions about anything difficult otherwise. Actually, you know what, lets just solve all our problems and stop doing things that confuse children. After all *WE* want to control what our kids learn when. So let’s eliminate everything confusing like death, sex, where babies come from, and why their fellow classmate, Timmy, is called “a little slow”. It’s way too much to ask us as parents to explain how life works. It’s way more convenient to tell two people that they have no right to have a legal commitment of love, because it confuses our children and we don’t have the patience to explain it.
How dare they. I mean really, how dare they try this wonderful thing we call marriage that us straight people deserve!? We can tell our offspring at the age of toddlers to support our sport team or political party (you know you do), but explaining something we might not agree with, is legal in this great country founded because some of our ancestors felt a change was needed from England - jeez. I mean, we’re not about changing thing, I mean re-writing laws is such a bitch for us. Ugh, there’s all this… re-writing. What next? Put a black man as President?
But most importantly, who we are at the single digit ages defines who we are 20 years later. That’s right, you tell your kid that it’s legal to marry the same sex, your kid will be gay. I know. It’s terrible. It is a mental condition after all, right? What a terrible disease.
Seriously tho, let’s not forget we were kids too. And you’d be surprised that the cartoons you grew up on will more than likely be ones you don’t approve of for your own children. Stop blaming things for ruining your kids life before they even live it. Give your kids some credit, some values you hold so dear might not matter to someone who still believes in cooties. Look at me, I dressed up as “The Fridge” from the Chicago Bears as a toddler on Halloween. I hate football today. I grew up in an area that had “KKK” spray painted on it’s football field for Homecoming when I was High School, and I proudly voted for Obama. I took a whole quarter of Driver’s Ed while listening to Rush Limbaugh - yet I’m making this post (I hardly passed the test, but it might be that I was griping the steering wheel so hard my knuckles were bleeding).
Raise your kids yourself, be a part of their lives as they grow. Then have a serious talk with them when they understand life a bit more, and let’s just see what happens. Despite what you believe about homosexuality, telling two people who love each other have less right than a drunk couple at Vegas going through a drive thru wedding, because we don’t want to explain it to our children who can’t even pick out Yugoslavia on a map, is wrong in every aspect.
And all this is just a smidge of what I really wanted to say, but I will now defer to Kevin Pereira’s site, who will then direct it to Olbermann.
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