Reply #84: I understand why you're proposing it. [View All]

[Pithlet]

It just doesn't make any sense, that's all. It would never pass in a million years. And if it did, it would creates more problems, to boot. Like a two tiered system of unions. That's just more inequality that snags even more people into the inequality net. People like me. Not good. And it gives in to the bigots. And that's worst of all. The suggestion brings up the connection of marriage with religion, which really, really bristles with people like me, who are touchy about that. We feel our marriages aren't any less than anyone who was married in a church. Comments like "The state should get out of the marriage business" really sets me on fire. Like hell it should. Why should it? That's bullshit.

Look, I understand that gay marriage probably isn't going to happen nationwide quickly. But, I do think we'll start to see some states enact it within our lifetimes. I think CA will overturn prop 8 in our lifetime, for sure. Then there's CT. I think you're wrong when you say the concept of Gay marriage won't work. It will. It is, just very slowly. Interracial marriage happened. It happened because people fought the good fight. They didn't give in. Progress moves forward. It always does. And it usually does faster than we think it will. It will certainly move faster if we fight the good fight instead of taking the coward's way out. And that's what giving in to the bigots is. And that's what proposals like giving them the word marriage is. It's the coward's way out. Because they don't own the word marriage.