Follow Up
Following up nicely with my MTV theory post, my daughter has been working on a project in her American Government classwhere they have to come up with their own political party and platform. Today she came home with her speech. I was happy to hear that her party was called the Equal Rights Party, with the central part of their platform being gay rights. There were some other ideas in her speech that I didn't really agree with, but I was happy tosee that a few high schoolgirls could get together and decide that gay rights is an important enough issue to base their party on. She has to give her speech tomorrow, so I'll be interested to see how it goes over with her class.
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I did see that on Pam's House Blend and meant to post something on it, but never got around to it. I really wish more politicians, and not just in the lower levels of government would talk like that, whether it's popular or not.
Whether you call it a right or whatever, I can get married, and I don't see any reason to deprie others of the same hapiness my marraige brings me.
No citizens have the right to specify conditions that are bigoted and discriminatory. Is it ok to deny black people marraige licenses? Of course not, and it shouldn't be denied to gay people either.
Anyway, if you cut through all the bullshit arguments about religion or "redifining" marraige or whatever, why on earth would anyone care if two people are happy together and want to be married? Why would you want to stop that? There just isn't any good reason.
Gay marraige has nothing to do with polgamy or incest. When you equate those things, it just makes your argument weaker.
Marraige has nothing to do with procreation? Or are you in favor of checking people's ability and/or desire to procreate before approving their marraige?
Gay rights are just like everyone else's rights. It's not about redifining anything, that's a Republican talking point. It's about not discriminating against anyone.
Your argument about kids marrying is just as bad as your polygamy and incest arguments, they have nothing to do with the issue, we're talking about consenting adults.
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