This is a ranting page on gay rights, on being queer, and on the things that pop into my head that may be related.

Gay Marriage

2-09-04

I've been watching the Massachusetts gay marriage debate.  Here's why I'm a bit scared now. 

I had to write a paper for English 101 about gay marriage.  Here it is.  Gay Marriage

Here's some of me just ranting.

Hertzi and I have been together for three years the way we count it, yet we are not allowed to marry.  Why is that?  Well, DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, states that a marriage can only be the union of a man and a woman for the purpose of procreation.  Other people also say that marriage is for procreation, and that gays are aberrations and abominations.  So we don't get the benefits of marriage.  We don't get little things, like the ability to visit each other when one of us is hospitalized with a serious illness.  The right to inherit property from each other.  How about the right to claim one and other on insurance policies from work (many business places offer domestic partnership insurance, but it still doesn't recognize us as spouses).

I watch the message boards on Yahoo a lot and most of the trolls there make the claim that "gay people" are trying to get special rights.  Bull.

Here's a question that needs to be answered: is marriage a legal contract or a spiritual sacrament?  Who gets jurisdiction, the church or the state?  Now, usually the church would be screaming trying to claim it, but I don't see this happening now.  Why?  Is it because more and more churches are becoming willing to perform commitment ceremonies?

7-11-03

Well, now two Canadian providences have legalized gay marriage, Belgium also has, and the UK is seriously looking in that direction.  Massachusetts is set to vote on legalizing gay marriage, and the Boston Globe published an editorial in favor of gay marriage.  Let's see where this goes.