I'm late to the party, but YAY! (RL)
May. 9th, 2012 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
My president. <3 Obama supports gay marriage. Yay! New icon time!
Soon enough people will look back on this whole mess in the same way we now do the whole anti-interracial marriage battle.
So often I want to post rants. I don't understand how anyone can be against equality for everyone. I don't understand how it matters to anyone what strangers do in the bedroom. I don't understand how people who not too long ago didn't have the right to marry anyone they wanted could now work to deny others of those same rights... but I won't spam you all. You know how I feel, I'm sure. :)
Soon enough people will look back on this whole mess in the same way we now do the whole anti-interracial marriage battle.
So often I want to post rants. I don't understand how anyone can be against equality for everyone. I don't understand how it matters to anyone what strangers do in the bedroom. I don't understand how people who not too long ago didn't have the right to marry anyone they wanted could now work to deny others of those same rights... but I won't spam you all. You know how I feel, I'm sure. :)
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Date: 2012-05-10 10:20 am (UTC)Anyway. Yesterday. With everyone spouting their personal opinions on the whole deal, Facebook was flooded. Mostly it was outrage over Amendment One, and people being pleased about Obama - I'll say the "norm" because the large majority of my generation, it seems, is pretty open-minded and pro-equality. One status, however, rather disturbed me. It was actually Alex's dad's status, the guy is A) from Puerto Rico (which apparently is VERY anti-gay), and B) recently became a pastor (I cannot understand the church... he carries on about loving others and doing good and blah blah blah, and yet... well, I'm getting to that.). His status sounded very much like the crazed Republican overreaction that suddenly cropped up with Obama's announcement - OH NOES THIS IS WAR ON MARRIAGE AND GOD IT WILL DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.
Pointed this out to Alex, and we got talking about the whole situation. He made a very interesting point. Said that people fear the equality thing because they think it will (somehow) destroy the country, or whatever, but that the reality is that it's their reactions to everything that will destroy the country. And I can't help but agree with that. Like you said, who cares what other people do in their bedroom? (As long as it doesn't involve children or lack of consent, anyway.) And yet... people decide to make it their business. And then go crazy about it. And then... yeah. Ugh.
Well, there y'go. You didn't rant, but you got a sleep-deprived rant from me instead! Yay! I'm going to make another feeble attempt at sleeping...
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Date: 2012-05-10 02:43 pm (UTC)It's their reactions that are doing way more harm than the act itself. (Oh nos! Two people want to be in a committed monogamous relationship! Somebody stop them!)
And of course agreed on the whole adult/consent thing in the bedroom.
from Puerto Rico (which apparently is VERY anti-gay),
I don't have much first hand experience, but what I do agrees with that. It's all MACHO, I'M A MANLY MAN MAN type thing, from what I've seen. /stereotyping
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Date: 2012-05-10 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-10 04:09 pm (UTC)It's all rather silly. I'm totally in agreement about the whole 'Who cares who's doing what in their bedrooms as long as it's consensual' thing.
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Date: 2012-05-10 04:12 pm (UTC)I'd hope we'd all have more important things to focus on...
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Date: 2012-05-10 04:24 pm (UTC)There are so many things wrong with this country. Why can't we deal with some serious issues?
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Date: 2012-05-10 04:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-10 04:36 pm (UTC)I did like how Obama pretty much said 'I decided to be a good Christian' in treating others well.
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Date: 2012-05-10 04:37 pm (UTC)