ArchivedWhy do you oppose gay marriage?Well, that's what marriage -- in the legal sense of the word -- <I>is.</I> You think calling gay marriage <I>marriage</I> undermines "the true meaning of marriage?" Well, that's too bad. Personally, I think calling it anything else -- or eliminating it entirely, as many anti-gay activists would like to -- undermines the principle of equality on which this country was founded... and which it has come to live up to, over the years. I bet there were people who thought giving women the vote would undermine the true meaning of democracy, too. Women voting! A travesty! What's the world coming to?! Equality. And now nobody even thinks twice about it. Again... <I>you are not gay.</I> If there's one thing that still gets to me, after years of debating topics like this, it's the unthinking arrogance of people who will imply -- or even <I>insist</I> -- that I don't know my own mind. And <I>they</I> do. I'm gay, so I <I>must</I> have chosen to be. I'm gay, so I <I>must</I> be attracted to pre-teen girls, even if I haven't actually molested one yet. I'm gay, so I can't possibly be attracted to a women because of who she is, it <I>must</I> be about her breasts. I'm gay, so you don't actually have to <I>listen</I> to me, when I contradict your preconceived notions. *sigh* Yeah, there are a lot of gay people who are pretty messed up. A lot of us are rejected by the people we love, or just live in fear of it, because we don't even dare to tell them. In various more subtle ways, our culture as a whole often teaches us to hate ourselves. And self-hatred leads pretty naturally to self-destruction. Unsafe sex isn't so different from drinking or drugs, just another path. Anything to feel a little better, for a little while... and to hell with the future. What sort of future do people like us have, anyhow? But that sort of mindset has nothing to do with being gay, and everything to do with being gay in a world that tells you it's <I>wrong.</I> And we <I>can</I> have futures worth living for, if we can get past that. |
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