If you want to watch a heart-rending film, check out "Tying the Knot". It's both life-affirming and desperately sad, all at once, which is just about the best way to descibe same-sex marriage, I think. It's life-affirming to know that so many people love each other so much that they're willing to commit their lives to one another, and it's desperately sad that they're not allowed to, in the eyes the law.
I've talked about it before, and I'll talk about it again, but when I watch films such as this, I can't help but talk about it. I can't help but want to cry and rip my hair out; I can't help but want to stand up and scream. Arguments against same-sex marriage make no sense to me, but that's not news, since I don't believe in a Christian God, or the Bible. I don't believe tradition is enough of a precedent (for if it were, women would be the property of men upon marriage, interracial marriage would be outlawed, etc etc.) for keeping marriage the way it is. I don't believe that tradition=right. And I certainly don't understand how we can categorically deny full humanity to a person, just because of what consenting adult they fall in love with.
And it blows my mind that so many people want to institutionalize their prejudice and hatred with some sort of Constitutional amendment saying that anybody who loves someone of the same sex is wrong, and isn't allowed, legally, to do so. You can frame the debate any way you want--economics, tradition, Bible, blah blah blah--but this too, like so many issues, boils down to fear and hatred. Only this issue is harder to understand than most, because this issue concerns two people, and whether or not they are allowed to love one another.
But I'm preaching to the choir. I'm saying this to people who most likely agree with me. So mostly, I'm just saying it to get it out of my head. To have my rant.
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