Oh for crying out...
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Okay. I was kind of the initial impression that the GLBT crowd had simply "overreached" and there was a backlash that created this overtly asinine
law. Fine - wasn't all that impressed with the rioting and hysterics after it was passed. Thought it reflected badly on them.
But okay. NOW I can get where the anger is coming from. These people have GOT to be stopped.
As a bit of background into my thinking - I'm of the somewhat libertarian stance that government shouldn't even be in the business of defining
"what is marriage" AT ALL. We could avoid this WHOLE DAMN ARGUMENT by just saying - NO marriage licenses PERIOD. EVERYONE gets a "civil
license" from the government and it gives you the legal benefits of "marriage" such as hospital visitation rights, next of kin status, insurance
liability, who gets the kids, etc, etc. And if you want to have a MARRIAGE you go to whatever church or synagogue or temple or mosque or Elvis chapel in Vegas
or WHAT THE FUCK EVER and just have the damn ceremony any damn way you want it!
But that would make TOO MUCH SENSE. That would mean that extremists on both ends of the spectrum wouldn't have a way to vie for power over others! And we
can't have THAT in politics, oh NO!
And then we get SHIT like THIS.
Makes me grind my teeth in anger at the stupidity, arrogance and sheer power madness.
EDIT: Just to be clear - I'm all for some kind of gay marriage. I just think the whole civil union thing would have made more sense and gotten them what
they really needed faster and with less fuss than trying to headbutt the whole tradition-bound marriage thing. But at this point, even if I think they made a
strategic mistake - having gone the road they've gone down, they can't back down now. And since the opposition has determined that they are going to
try and grind their heels into the faces of the gay-marriage movement, at this point my sympathies are with the GLBT community. I say GO FOR IT. If we're
going to have gay marriage then FIGHT for it. DESTROY these mother-fuckers!
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Okay. I was kind of the initial impression that the GLBT crowd had simply "overreached" and there was a backlash that created this overtly asinine
law. Fine - wasn't all that impressed with the rioting and hysterics after it was passed. Thought it reflected badly on them.
But okay. NOW I can get where the anger is coming from. These people have GOT to be stopped.
As a bit of background into my thinking - I'm of the somewhat libertarian stance that government shouldn't even be in the business of defining
"what is marriage" AT ALL. We could avoid this WHOLE DAMN ARGUMENT by just saying - NO marriage licenses PERIOD. EVERYONE gets a "civil
license" from the government and it gives you the legal benefits of "marriage" such as hospital visitation rights, next of kin status, insurance
liability, who gets the kids, etc, etc. And if you want to have a MARRIAGE you go to whatever church or synagogue or temple or mosque or Elvis chapel in Vegas
or WHAT THE FUCK EVER and just have the damn ceremony any damn way you want it!
But that would make TOO MUCH SENSE. That would mean that extremists on both ends of the spectrum wouldn't have a way to vie for power over others! And we
can't have THAT in politics, oh NO!
And then we get SHIT like THIS.
Makes me grind my teeth in anger at the stupidity, arrogance and sheer power madness.
EDIT: Just to be clear - I'm all for some kind of gay marriage. I just think the whole civil union thing would have made more sense and gotten them what
they really needed faster and with less fuss than trying to headbutt the whole tradition-bound marriage thing. But at this point, even if I think they made a
strategic mistake - having gone the road they've gone down, they can't back down now. And since the opposition has determined that they are going to
try and grind their heels into the faces of the gay-marriage movement, at this point my sympathies are with the GLBT community. I say GO FOR IT. If we're
going to have gay marriage then FIGHT for it. DESTROY these mother-fuckers!