Thursday, May 29, 2008
"... no, it's not so much that I'm anti-gay... although neither am I pro-gay... I'm not one or the other in particular. You see? This is the problem - I don't want to have to think about it either way, I don't want to care and I don't particularly want to be made to feel like a lout for not caring. Sure, I guess as a civilized human I should in some sense indulge their concerns... but... there are bigger issues, no? More important things to worry about for the ninety-five percent of the species that ain't so inclined. Do I really want to stop them from getting married? No, not much interested in that. On the other hand, do I think they should be allowed to marry? No, it's stupid, and especially stupid given that civil unions afford them all the purported rights and privileges thereof. Marriage is a heterosexual artifice, it's specifically hetero - all its meaning is derived from the harrowing reality and resulting mysticism surrounding sexual congress between a guy and a gal - namely, on the way up the hill, randy Jack may get pretty little Jill pregnant. A Jack and a Jack or a Jill and a Jill can't have that experience and that experience is what marriage is and has been all about for the few thousand years men and women have been climbing up hills and tumbling down them. Gays want to make it about love, in fact their arguments only make sense in that context - but love per se is not what it's about at its core for us. If they wanna think it's all about love good for them, let them go off and do what they do to their hearts content - I don't care, and for that matter, neither should it be the government's province in general to care who loves what and why. But don't expect me to buy into this sentimental view of marriage - more importantly, don't try and force me to buy into it. I should have the right to reject the supposed enlightenment of others if there's no compelling reason why I should be denied the freedom of that right. The contention that denial of traditional marriage vows supposedly somehow encumbers the true expression of love within a gay relationship is decidedly not a compelling reason..."