(in which I try to act older than I am)
I do not understand how people can believe they are tolerant of others, and then try to deprive them of rights.
You say that gay people want more than your tolerance, we want your acceptance. But how can this be tolerance if you are trying to keep a group of people in a lower class? Because that’s what this is about: having the right to marry the person you love. What does tolerance mean to you? That you will not stone gay people for our “choices?” That you will not stop us from having relationships? That you will allow us to express love in the privacy of our homes? Forgive me if I’m not falling over myself to praise you for your benevolence. You can’t support bans on gay marriage and say that you live and let live.
Acceptance? Approval? We’re not asking for wedding gifts, and you’re not invited to the party if you’re just deigning to be civil to us.
As it’s always been, and always will be, you’re totally allowed to have the opinion that being gay is wrong and that gay marriage is not equal to straight marriage. Just don’t use those opinions to control the lives of others.
I don’t speak for all gay people of course, but…
-We’re not doing this to piss you off or be different.
-We don’t need your approval, we just want equal status
-For god’s sake, it’s not a freaking choice.
November 21, 2008 at 1:14 am
GREAT POINTS! Many of us will be responding to this discrimination with a NON-Violent Solution:
The NATIONAL EQUALITY TAX PROTEST will be on Wednesday, April 15th, 2009.
Individuals are FINALLY gathering to TAKE A STAND against persecution from the Mormons & the Christian “Right”. No vote will be needed on this one, folks.
EQUALITY is SIMPLE when you simply include EVERYONE.
November 21, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Well said! I really want this debate about “choice” to be over!
November 23, 2008 at 8:14 am
it’d be nice if the debate about choice came to an end, but it probably never will.
also, to assume only christians are homophobes is ignorant on your part. i’m a christian, and i’m pretty obviously not a homophobe.
as far as tolerance vs. intolerance goes. i can understand voting yes on 8 if said rights were not already handed to the people. keeping marriage illegal and revoking marriage, i think, are different sides of the tolerance tracks. i mean, i obviously would hope that people would vote no on 8 whether the rights previously existed or not. but one has to admit that taking rights away feels a lot worse than keeping rights away.
the thing that hurts the most, however, is being deemed subhuman by the majority of your “neighbors” so to speak.
November 23, 2008 at 12:45 pm
@thatonegaykid: I’m not sure if the first part of your response was to me, because I don’t see where my post assumes only Christians are homophobes. I don’t feel that way, and I’m also a Christian.
November 24, 2008 at 11:51 am
here, here! if we hide being gay then we are ashamed because inside we know its not natural, if we hold hands with our partner walking down the street or stand too close…we’re flaunting it…lol…
they don’t want us to have anything, they just want us to go away.