Try as I might every day, I simply don't understand. What is there to fight about? What is going on that can possibly be so important that these people have to interject their opinion?
Here's the reality: the Government of the United States of America has made an egregious over sight error by not affording persons of the same-sex equal marriage rights. In fact, that Government has contradicted it's own Equal Protections clause by excluding LGBT folk from the legal protections of the institution of marriage. Us LGBT's have called that over sight in to question and demanded that the laws of the land be brought in sync with each other. So again I ask, what can there possibly be to fight about here?
Some of the ass-crazy conservative groups want to throw out hyperbolic claims of the end of the world or whatever nonsense is popular to their mentally deficient leaders that day, but it doesn't make any sense. At all. In fact, this is a fight to expand current Civil protections, not shrink them. If anything, more protections can only mean good things for everyone.
The newest is this idea that marriage equality will somehow erode the "rights" of some Christian groups to openly hate gay people. Well, that's not true at all. The institution of marriage isn't about eroding rights, it's about offering protections. What will prevent certain extremists from calling for the continued harassment of young gay kids is Anti-Discrimination Law. The same laws that ironically protect these twisted twits I might add. Marriage Equality and Anti-Discrimination are two different things all together.
Now then, it is Discriminatory to deny us LGBT people the same rights as other, non-LGBT people. And it is discriminatory to accept public funding, some of which comes from LGBT folk, and deny the public the right to use your services or property. That's discrimination, and those sorts of things are prevented or punished because of Anti-Discrimination laws, not Marriage law.
So, one more time I ask: What in the world are we fighting about? If the Christian fundies want to start talking Anti-Discrimination Law, I'd be happy to go there with them. However, I am still baffled on a daily basis trying to understand why they are involved in the Marriage debate at all. I just don't understand, and to me that is the most frustrating part of this whole non-debate. Give me my fucking rights already!
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