By depriving people of their rights, a privileged class is created

[Solly Mack]

whose members seek special rights based on manufactured exclusionary standards in hopes of setting themselves apart from - and above - other people in order to feel better about themselves.

It's the province of the cowardly, petty, and insecure. People who want so much to be anything but what they are - average - normal - the same.

Because being the same means being just like everyone else and then their wants and needs - their very life - doesn't set them apart from the crowd.

There's nothing unique or special about their love - their marriage - their beliefs - their ideas...and if they can't be special then all the bad that can and does happen to other people can happen to them as well.

Fear dominates their very existence and they seek to control others because they can't control the world and what may happen to them.

While such people are to be pitied, it should never be forgotten the danger they pose to others.

When people say be satisfied with civil unions, those people are still holding fast to their standards of exclusive rights - of special rights.

It's effectively saying *WE* have marriage - and *YOU*, because you are different and therefore not like us, have something else...something different..something not special...something less

It's saying you're less than we are so this is all you can have

*WE* take ownership of a word...but it's not just a word, is it?..It's an entire concept upon which the society we live in places great value.

So when you deny people marriage, you aren't just denying them a word - you're denying them everything that comes with that word...that concept.

You're denying them their very humanity.


From a thread by BuffyTheFundieSlayer And people continually ask "Why do you insist on *Marriage*?"

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Bravo. Equality is not a zero sum game. n/t

[Jamastiene]

2. K&R

[ColbertWatcher]

3. Morning kick. n/t

[closeupready]

4. People did it to Native Americans, blacks, Jews and every other minority group.

Same shit, different day.

[Mnemosyne]

5. Early a.m. KnR. n/t

[DarkTirade]

6. ... created?

It was already there. They just reinforced it.

[TahitiNut]

7. Yup. In the exact same sense, economic coercion creates a military service class.

Funny thing about that is that it tends to be hereditary, too. But ain't it wonderful to be part of the privileged class? That's what we "accomplished" by going through the 60s. (Makes me proud. :puke: )

:sarcasm:

(Yes ... I'm being provocative. The objectification of human beings is a many-headed monster!)