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October 26, 2006
"Marriage, or something like it..."
So, New Jersey basically says that gays and lesbians should be entitled to the sames rights as married couples, but perhaps just not the term marriage. So, how do we feel about this? Well, I suppose this is the dreaded glass half empty, glass half full conundrum. It is a great step forward for gays and lesbians that someone out there wants to grant us and our partners rights, rights that any heterosexual couple in our country gets to enjoy (although divorce rates might make you believe a lot of married people aren't enjoying much of anything). But why the possessiveness over the term marriage? A political lady on NPR this morning (sorry, I don't remember her name) stated that "the law needs to define marriage as something special only a man and a woman can do", and then said a lot of stuff about procreating and that marriage needs to be protected. Protected from what? All of us crazy, salivating gays and lesbians bent on destroying heterosexual marriages and then the world? I personally have always associated love with the term marriage, not necessarily gender. I mean, as I was being brought up I was taught that men and women fell in love, got married, and sometimes had children. You see, it was always the love part that came first, or so I thought. Now that I am no longer a child, I know that things are not always that simple, but I still believe love comes first. Is love exclusive to only heterosexual people? If so, I guess I slipped by because I have felt love, great love actually, and also the other not so nice things that can go hand in hand with love such as great pain. I hope to feel love again in my life, love that goes beyond all of the amazing friendships I have in my life. A person can have many, many close friends, yet sometimes still feel lonely. So when love comes my way again, I hope I have the right to marry just like anyone else does. I've always loved NY, and never really thought about NJ. But let me tell you, if NY doesn't get it's act together, it may find itself without one slightly crazy marriage destroying gay guy!
Posted by ahuckle at October 26, 2006 11:58 AM
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