Procreation uber alles

[donsu]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2474.shtml


Who would have thought that the successful union of a spermatozoa and an ovum would be a tax-paying citizen's certification of citizenship.

The highest court of the state of Maryland has recently joined New York and Washington state in ruling that because same-gendered people can't procreate they cannot be married in the same way that opposite-gendered people can.

Reading between the lines, it seems straight people who have the corresponding slot A and tab B are automatically entitled to the approximately 1,400 Federal and state benefits that accrue with state-sponsored marriage.

I always thought that paying taxes made one a citizen.

Odd, that even though I have no children, I'm still required to pay school taxes. Additionally, I pay a sales tax to help pay for municipal structures such as sports arenas that I will never use, my gasoline taxes are used to pave roads which I'll never drive on, and my library taxes will pay for books which I'll never read.

And now -- at least in Maryland, New York and Washington -- I have to pony up with a wife and child in order to be a REAL citizen? Paying taxes isn't enough?

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As the balance scale of Lady Justice is replaced with a cudgel, and her blindfold exchanged with binoculars it would do for us all, gay or straight, to reassess just what makes a civil society.
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forcibly replaced

[Autumn Colors]

1. Then shouldn't sterile people also be prohibited from marriage?

If that's their reasoning, can't that be shot down by trying to hold them to prohibiting marriage to any couple where one or the other spouse is sterile or those women who had their tubes tied or women who have had hysterectomies?

Actually, I guess that leaves old people out, too.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. The People who want to run other peoples' lives always need to make up excuses.

It's never a straightforward "I feel I was put on this Earth to tell you, a consenting adult, what to do". There's always some bullshit, half-baked rationale that sounds like it was made up on the spot. Sort of like the Iraq War.

The bottom line here is, the authoritarian control freak crowd us unable to rationalize why GLBT citizens getting married affects their lives at all. So they make shit up.