For all of those people who voted against Referendum I and for Amendment 43 last week, you baffle me. Why you would think that you can decide whether or not someone can get married is beyond me. Do you really think that the economic impact would be that great if gay couples were able to get married? What is so wrong with two people of the same sex getting married?
I see nothing wrong with two people of the same sex - who both love each other - getting married. So what do those of you - who voted for banning same-sex marriage - see that is wrong with two people of the same sex getting married? Perhaps it is unnatural - true that two people of the same sex cannot naturally conceive children - but then should we ban heterosexual couples that cannot reproduce, for whatever reason, from getting married? Of course we wouldn't. If a heterosexual couple that couldn't have children loved each other we would let them get married despite that fact.
Do we need to keep the sanctity of marriage intact? If we really want to keep the sanctity of marriage intact then we should ban divorce. If you get into the commitment of marriage, then, if we want to keep the sanctity of marriage, no divorces should be granted. We allow abusive couples to be married; we allow alcoholics who ruin their families to be married; we allow mail-order brides and spur of the moment Vegas style weddings. We allow people to get married 10 times over, but when it comes to gays we give a mighty, no.
Marriage is about two people loving each other until death do them part, and if two men or two women love each other and promise to love each other until death then they deserve to get married just as a heterosexual couple does. That is what the sanctity of marriage is really about - loving a person forever.
I had thought a constitution was meant to give people rights, not take them away (be it a state constitution or the United States Constitution). Yet states have now been passing amendments to define marriage as being between a man and a woman, taking away rights from homosexual couples who want to get married permanently, or at least until people wake up and realize that everyone deserves the same rights.
The scary bit is that it looks like with this new run of state, amendments banning gay marriage look like they may lead to a Federal amendment against gay marriage. Only one amendment ever passed for the Federal constitution that took away rights from the people: Prohibition, and that was retracted in 1933 after being passed as an amendment in 1920. Never since then has the Federal constitution had any amendment take away rights from anyone, and it should never have one that does this, again. Our nation is not in the business of taking rights away; we are in the business of giving people rights.
There used to be bans on couples of different races getting married, and now when we look at that it seems backwards, or at least some of us view it this way. That ban has become archaic in today's society; no one would ever try and stop a couple of the same race from getting married and succeed. Yet when people try and stop a marriage between a homosexual couple they can stop them from getting married. It just doesn't make sense.
So what is the main reason for voting against gay marriage? I am going to go out on a limb and say, religion. Religion, as a whole, views homosexuality as wrong, ungodly and generally evil. Religion is supposed to teach tolerance; gods are supposed to be all-powerful and love all creatures on their green earth. That is unless you are from a different religion or in some way think differently from what any one religion preaches as normal. And how do we know (either from people who say God speaks through them or who believe they speak through a self-proclaimed mouthpiece or a fucking book) what is normal?
And when one of your mouthpieces - one who preaches anti-gay rhetoric - comes out to actually be gay, you don't find that odd. If God was talking to him and he turned out to be gay, then shouldn't homosexuality be OK?
Why did those of you who voted against gay marriage feel the need to do so? Are you so afraid of homosexuality that you have to vote against it? Does it scare you, take you out of your normal, happy little world? Are you really so disturbed that when something new and different comes near you, you have to pretend it doesn't exist? You have to take away happiness from another person just so that you can continue to live in your comfortable and perfect world?
That is all that you people who voted against Referendum I and for Amendment 43 did last week: You took away happiness from people. You took away a chance for two people who love each other to get married, just like other people and just because they are the same sex. There was the chance to give them domestic partnerships, but you decided that they shouldn't have those either. You decided that they should not have the same rights as you have, because they are different from you.
Nations around the world are legalizing gay marriage, and they are not falling into social ruin. Yet we, the land of the free, the shinning symbol of democracy for the world, still keep people from being equal. We cannot truly call ourselves the land of the free; we cannot think ourselves a democracy until we are truly free, until we have truly given equal rights to all people.
Do we really think the nation will fall into ruin if we legalize gay marriage? that our very moral fiber will dissolve? Will the sanctity of marriage be lost? Will the Apocalypse come because we are allowing sodomy to run rampant? I would guess not.
But you have already spoken. All we can hope is that your children turn out to be more tolerant than you.
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