2008 Woodie Awards
Student disgusted by passage of Proposition 8 in California
Gay rights should have equal consideration with racial equality
Michael George
Issue date: 11/12/08 Section: Opinions
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Nonetheless, I never understood the moral justification of denying millions of people the basic rights of marriage, based merely on their sexuality. It doesn't take a whole lot of effort to find stories like that of Anna Nicole Smith and other blatant abuses of the institution of marriage right there in the plain of day on TV. That being said, how can the heterosexual community have the gall to claim moral superiority on marriage? If we're using Biblical arguments here, wouldn't God be more apt to condemn the rampant abuse of marriage by straight couples before even giving one care about two men or two women marrying? As a society, shouldn't we be supporting stable relationships in homosexual couples, just as in heterosexual couples, for purposes of sustaining healthy and nurturing families? Letting gay couples marry will have no impact on religious services and traditions. It's not like we're forcing church to change their marriage traditions for us. All we want is for the state to allow us to marry and solidify the love for each other in the same manner that straight couples do. I don't care whether or not your church chooses to recognize it; I respect your church and its right to exercise marriage however it pleases. Marriage, in its official capacity, is not a church institution; it is a state institution that just happens to often be accompanied by a church ceremony. Why are we even using the Bible to deny us these rights?
I don't like to base the way I vote for a national candidate on this issue, but it still infuriates me that these people also do not see the distinction here. Is there something I'm missing here? Is my logic somehow flawed in the way I view marriage? Why is it that the same people who do not want the government imposing in their lives so often turn around and use the government to impose their moral righteousness on us? A huge majority of blacks in California turned out to vote for Obama in a symbolic move to cleanse America of its racial prejudices; why would many of them also vote to uphold discrimination against gay couples?
"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged.
These fundamental hypocrisies baffle me to no end, and I just wish that somebody would tell me where my logic and my premises is flawed in all this. Is there something that I am missing? When people vote for things that do not even affect them, yet undermines the dignity of others like this, I can't help but wonder: do people just like to fuck with us or something?! Trying to rationalize all this only has the effect of feeling humiliated - for the gay community and for those close-minded hypocrites who use their majority power to bully the rest of us around.
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jkj
posted 11/11/08 @ 10:21 PM EST
The whole purpose of marriage in society is the declaration of a new breeding pair. I've never been anti-gayrights before but I don't see them as a hard done to minority this time, I just see them as being unreasonable. (Continued…)
Tom
posted 11/12/08 @ 12:18 AM EST
If, as jkj states, marriage were only about breeding, people who are infertile, sterile, post-menopausal, have erectile dysfunction, or choose not to have children would be banned from marrying. (Continued…)
Nadav Zohar
posted 11/12/08 @ 12:23 AM EST
I love this issue, because it's so easy to write about.
On July 23, 2008, Barack Obama made a famous speech in which he said he could not accept an America in which women have to choose between their kids and a career. (Continued…)
Nope
posted 11/12/08 @ 1:44 AM EST
As long as the majority considers homosexuality to be a mental disease or a choice they have no more reason to grant marriage privleges to gays that drivers' licenses to each of a person's multiple personalities with mpd. (Continued…)
Ben
posted 11/12/08 @ 2:42 AM EST
I think that we're missing something bigger here. That something is the government meddling with the church. The United States was founded with and emphasis on seperating the church from the 'state. (Continued…)
kettasii
posted 11/12/08 @ 8:53 AM EST
"Is my logic somehow flawed in the way I view marriage?"
Traditional marriage and gay marriage are not the same. It is not discrimination. It is biology. (Continued…)
Matt
posted 11/12/08 @ 10:30 AM EST
The term marriage is a religious term, and many/most religions don't support homosexuality as a "way of life." Not to mention that the biology standpoint suggests life is about procreation, and that can't happen in homosexual couples. (Continued…)
Brian
posted 11/12/08 @ 10:31 AM EST
NEVER compare the fight of homosexuality to that of Afrikan-Americans in the civil rights movement. While I wouldn't have voted against it, they are two different issues. (Continued…)
TJ Hufford
posted 11/12/08 @ 11:33 AM EST
So I must comment here. As an openly gay man here at Wright State, I have not met with many issues surrounding my rights or the lack there of. But, I do feel that this issue is one of civil rights. (Continued…)
Johnathon Gallienne
posted 11/12/08 @ 11:48 AM EST
There are no good arguments against gay marriage period.
We keep passing legislation to deny people rights, and that is the worst part of this. Now before you all start making your arguments let me address them. (Continued…)
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