ArchivedWhy do you oppose gay marriage?Societal acceptance did not stop heterosexuals from forming long-term relationships in the 50' & 60's without the benefit of marriage. "This woe is me people don't like me attitude therefore my relationships are short term and unacceptable to those who don't understand us" mantra is just an excuse. If you need societal acceptance for any relationship it is flawed to begin with. You bring up interracial marriages a whole lot. When I was a kid living in California (prior to 1953) there were lots of interracial marriages. Whites looked askance at black men with white women but they were not discriminated against. And the lack of general acceptance did not cause these couples any problems and it did not stop GI’s from bringing wives home from Japan after WW II. My mother had more problems with my paternal grandfather because her primary heritage is German. Prejudice is not the issue, self-acceptance is. You will never see any society totally free of prejudice. I lived in Houston where Blacks, Latino’s, and Asian’s are numerous. The most prejudiced people I met were northern transplants not the natives. Prejudice is taught at home, not in school or general society. Just look at the number of TV shows that are up in the ratings that have gay themes. Your lack of societal acceptance argument just won’t hold water. When I say homosexual relationships are short-term you always counter with the fact your gay friends are in long-term monogamous relationships. If your gay friends can maintain long-term relationships in spite of a perceived general lack of social acceptance why do you use this as an excuse? I live in a very conservative area of Colorado. My oldest niece and her partner are out, proud, and it is generally known they are lesbian partners. They are not discriminated against in their jobs, their neighborhood (which is not a gay area) or by their biological families. They are accepted for who they are, period. What they do in the privacy of their own home is no body’s business. You know why gay relationships break up? Jealousy is the primary reason and it is not because of society. One partner will have a roving eye the other finds offensive and they fight, one partner will trick out and leave his partner at home or trick out while his partner is at work. There are a very few gay men who are moral in their sexual lives, darn few. I have known hundreds of gay couples and not one relationship was terminated because of lack of “societal acceptance” every one of them broke up because one partner found a richer, better connected, cuter, younger, better endowed, etc. trick who was more interesting than what he had at home. They broke up because of infidelity, personality conflicts, all the same reasons heterosexuals break up. If you think heterosexuals discriminate against the gay community move to a major city and experience the discrimination within the gay community. The leather crowd won’t socialize with the Western crowd who won’t socialize with the twinkies who won’t socialize with drag queens who won’t socialize with butch dykes who won’t socialize with effeminate men and all look upon hustlers with contempt. The gay community is more fragmented than society in general. The only place the GBLT community joins forces and cooperates is in the political arena and this by necessity not choice. I know you don’t agree with McKellar but his analysis of gay life is right on point. |
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