Well I’m sure some of you will disagree with this post but I guess I have to be controversial once in a while. Maybe that’s why my reader average has gone down a little 
So, that number is interesting – right? What is it from? It’s the total # of rights granted to married couples in the United States. Thanks to the the Defense of Marriage Act,
that means those rights are only granted to heterosexual couples. In a
few states, such as California, a gay couple can register as Domestic
Partners, giving them about a dozen of those 1,138 rights.
I have to ask – just what are we defending marriage
against? Some critics against gay marriage state that it is a slippery
slope. That soon brothers and sisters will want to marry. Groups of
people will want to get married. Allowing those "gays" to get married
is the beginning of the end apparently. And I’m not talking about re-defining marriage from a religious perspective. If a particular religion wants to marry you or not based on your orientation they should have that right. I’m just talking about the civil aspects of a marriage and the rights that are afforded to that under the law.
Is banning same sex marriage even legal in the United States?
The debate rages. And it will for quite some time. I come from a
biased opinion but really – is it that harmful to let two people who
love each other gather all the equal rights of marriage regardless of
what gender they are??
Happy Running & Dirty Feet,
Jessica
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Given how much infidelity there is in the heterosexual world, I don’t doubt some brothers and sister already *are* married!
I don’t disagree at all, if two people (m/f, m/m, f/f) love and care for each other I think it’s a good thing. Best wishes with your running!
a great deal of laws reflect people’s fear of change (especially the ones in control); therefore a lot of effort is put into maintaining the status quo. anything that deviates from the “norm” is considered a threat and deemed illegal.
have you noticed how schools do not encourage creative, outside-the-box thinking, and how “standardized tests” would actually leave kids pretty lost who have not been tamed by the school system?
mere cogs in the wheel. this is the greater plan for humanity. one we must fight at all costs, in my opinion.
oh, and while society is too busy debating the fate of “those gay people”, priests are molesting children. go figure.
thanks for your post.
We should not lose sight that, generally speaking, the ‘rights’ and ‘institution of marriage’ is little more than a binding contract of financial responsibilities/liabilities. From a legal perspective it is a business agreement outlining the use and division of financial assets.
You can achieve many of the same provisions(although not all) through a legal contract document.
If you want to give half your ‘stuff’ to someone else, please have at it. If you want to pay 18 years of child support or alimony, it should be your right.
For now I would suggest you enjoy the personal committment, satisfaction and enjoyment of spending the next 50 years with your soul mate. That’s what it’s all about anyway.
BTW, if your readership is dimishing it is probably because the blog is quickly becoming a limited to running. There are thousands of these out there, running-only talk is not that compelling. I do not pretend to speak for others however a single thread does not make a cozy and welcoming quilt.
D
Ditto to the last paragraph of D’s post. We want the old blog back!
I’m not going to pretend I understand the other side of the argument – especially by the ‘god hates fags’ extremists.
Hopefully, the era of equal civil liberties is not too far off on the horizon. This is why more Americans need to vote!!
I became Ordained so that i could marry my gay friends. Some day the shrub will hunt me down and shoot me – since i am living in TX, I’m surprised it hasn’t already happened.
I miss the old stuff blog too – Not that I don’t like the running stuff.
Well, I’m not going to get into the political discussion as that could be a long comment and the gist of it is that our government has no business in our personal lives.
However, I think there is a question being begged beneath this quote and inquiring readers want to know. Is there a positive note motivating this post? Is someone thinking about getting married here?!?
I always get thrown by those who say we have to preserve the ‘sanctity of marriage’ by keeping gay people from being privy to it. Doesn’t it make more sense that if we want to make marriage sanctimonious, then we should really be banning DIVORCE? I mean, 2 gay men in a long term loving relationship can’t get married, but Pamela Anderson can get married and divorced like 5 times?
I liked a what I heard some comedian say once, which was, “Let the gays get married…they deserve to be as miserable as the rest of us!” Ha!