Losing Faith...again.

Well folks, I've about had it up to the top of my 5'9-3/4" head! See, there is this schism between people who think that Gays have the right to marry, and those who say they'd "Kill" a gay man "if he looked at me like that!"

First, one must address the obvious: do Gays have the right to marry? Should they? If I remember correctly, there was a time in the not-so-distant past when African-American's did not have the right to marry. Then they could marry, but only each other. I think it was something like the 1940's or 50's when interracial marriages were legal in the U.S.

But do they have the right to marry? Think about it this way: a hetero couple decides to have a child, but they do not marry. Aren't all of the right-wing religious zealots all over them to get married and for the guy to "make an honest woman" out of her? So translate that to a lesbian couple. They have babies. And we are totally preventing them from legally providing the safety of a marriage to the children.

Quite frankly I think that the uber-conservatives like the individual in the aforementioned article, are homophobes and nothing more. They seem to have some misinformed sense that every gay person on the planet is out for one thing and one thing only -- and it ain't Pete Jenning's toupee'. Seriously, that's like saying that all hetero people have the alleged moral turpitude of Brittany Spears.

I have gay friends. Some of them live the most normal, moral lives. They do not go out and have anonymous relationships any more than the girls I worked with at the local Micky-D's in college did. And let me tell you, this one girl Missy... My mom's uncle waived a $50 in her face as she walked into my sister's wedding reception and yelled "Fiddy Dollar make you hollah..." She was dressed like a whore, and had an orange foundation line across her cheek. Gauche.

Anyways, back to my point: not allowing Gays to marry is akin to encouraging promiscuity. They would not marry lightly in the same vein that you or I would not marry lightly. Isn't abusing marriage for the sake of a green card or for the sake of ... what... a tax break or... health benefits? Pshaw!

If someone wants to get married... I say let 'em. I've seen too many people -- gays, and heteros alike, get shafted after being in a long-term committed relationship. What do I mean by that? Just that marriage also offers protection and validation to someone if something goes horribly wrong and their children are at risk of being possessed by the state, the partner that worked so hard along side the other one, would not be allowed to inherit the estate of the other one, and a whole litnany of reasnos. Heteros have commonlaw marriages. Why not at the very least, consider that?

Why the soap-box today? Because of the article cited in the first paragraph. It's a shame that I used to respect that man when I was a kid. He's no better than you or I and he certainly should not be professing to speak the gosple out of one side of his mouth while gay bashing out of the other.