Max is home sick today. :( Doesn’t seem too bad, though, but he did have a fever and was up much of the night. I’ve been up since 4!
At work now but I’ll probably head home this afternoon to help spell Conrad.
I’m royally pissed because I just FINALLY got a chance to write a new article for Examiner.com about Jersey Boys in Las Vegas (shut up, it’s close to Phoenix), and then it got obliterated. That’s never happened to me before and it sucks! I’m too disconsolate to start over right now.
So hey, I’m always afraid of offending. It’s a problem of mine. But right now I’m just going to be a bit out of character and put a political-type opinion out there. I mean, it IS my blog. If I can’t do it here, where can I do it? In people’s living rooms, who I know feel the opposite, as if to pick a fight in the middle of a friendly visit, just start spouting off?
That’s kinda rude.
I’ll keep it in my private space, thanks.
So, people, the basic summary of the rant to follow is, if you’ve got a problem with gay marriage, then I’m going to have a problem with your having a problem with it. Even if you’re an otherwise nice person, that’s gonna really stick in my craw. In fact maybe worse.
So if my expressing how I feel about this is going to stick in YOUR craw in a similar fashion, I invite you to leave now before I commence my rant.
This way we can all stay friends. 
I’ll wait.
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Okay. Rant commencing . . . NOW!
I heard some dude on the radio this morning who was HAPPY about Maine’s thank-you-very-little-for-not-taking-a-stand-at-all-to-overcome-bigotry vote to repeal same-sex marriage, saying the notion of same-sex marriage “undermines the institution of marriage.”
Seriously? It “undermines” marriages? I don’t know about YOUR marriage, but mine isn’t going to “undermined” by anything anyone else does.
Seriously? It’s OK for Khloe Kardashian to have a circus of a marriage after a month, while couples who have been together 25 years can’t?
It cracks me up how so many people who rant against gay marriage don’t even KNOW any of the wonderful, kind, responsible gay people in this world who would be a hundred times more equipped to marry and to parent than 85 percent of the dumbasses who come through the juvenile court where I work. Or, even worse, they DO know them, and still won’t support their rights.
Conrad had to explain it to me. He doesn’t share their view, he shares mine (it’s best for his safety in our home), but grew up surrounded by it enough to understand, at least better than I can.
“It doesn’t matter, it’s in the Bible. Getting to know them has no effect, because these people’s charm or quality as people doesn’t bear on the issue. God’s God. This is wrong. End of story.”
So it wouldn’t matter if they got to know these real-life people or not. Real people, with a million facets, a million hopes and dreams, who love as deeply as you, hurt as deeply as you, and have so very much to give . . .
Nope. Just going to either ignore that, or feebly attempt to turn to some ridiculous stereotype of promiscuity (because of course there are no promiscuous heterosexuals) and try to pretend that’s the only reality there is, and damnit, we’re going to keep it from taking over.
Where I come from, that’s called deliberate close-mindedness. I also call it sad and warped and ignorant, and based on a pathetically misplaced presumption of moral superiority - but worst of all, an unforgivable perpetuation of knee-jerk hate.
Tell yourself whatever you need to to be able to sleep at night. I’m not buying it.
I’m with you. If two people want to marry, who are we to say that they can’t?
Amber
November 5th, 2009
I’m not recycling until gay marriage becomes legal! That’s my stance on things.
Jere
November 5th, 2009