Anti-Marriage Protection Week
Oct. 15th, 2003 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravenMarriage Protection Week.
It protects the "sanctity of marriage." It is defence against "the crisis facing marriage today." It protects the "God-ordained building block of the family and bedrock of a civil society."
It also, incidentally, protects my right to run off to Vegas and marry the first male person I see.
I'm not getting into the complexities of it. Gay marriage is not generally recognised, but it should be. That's all there is to it.
What I find so utterly incomprehensible is the utter arrogance of these people. They really don't see how bigoted, closed-minded, intolerant and just plain offensive they are being. They are single-handedly dismissing the lives and loves of millions upon millions of human beings, everywhere in the world. And they're losing sight of the fact that marriage does not have to be religious. You can get married in a registry office, if you want to and you're straight. The various religions and their attitudes are not my point. You should be able to marry whoever you want, without your government telling you what to believe.
And even if that's not possible - and in most of the world this is the case - you should be able to get through the day without fundamentalist, twisted-Christian propaganda shoved in your face by the apparent leader of the free world.
Family values ain't got anything to do with it, because they don't exist. Name me a family value. They don't exist.
Anti-Marriage Protection Week is a listed interest on livejournal. Can I say... go with the slash? Write slash, write smut, iconise, make banners, wear rainbows and feel no shame for what you are.
This public service announcement has been brought to you by a pissedoff!Raven and a great deal of caffiene.
Thank you.
~Raven.
It protects the "sanctity of marriage." It is defence against "the crisis facing marriage today." It protects the "God-ordained building block of the family and bedrock of a civil society."
It also, incidentally, protects my right to run off to Vegas and marry the first male person I see.
I'm not getting into the complexities of it. Gay marriage is not generally recognised, but it should be. That's all there is to it.
What I find so utterly incomprehensible is the utter arrogance of these people. They really don't see how bigoted, closed-minded, intolerant and just plain offensive they are being. They are single-handedly dismissing the lives and loves of millions upon millions of human beings, everywhere in the world. And they're losing sight of the fact that marriage does not have to be religious. You can get married in a registry office, if you want to and you're straight. The various religions and their attitudes are not my point. You should be able to marry whoever you want, without your government telling you what to believe.
And even if that's not possible - and in most of the world this is the case - you should be able to get through the day without fundamentalist, twisted-Christian propaganda shoved in your face by the apparent leader of the free world.
Family values ain't got anything to do with it, because they don't exist. Name me a family value. They don't exist.
Anti-Marriage Protection Week is a listed interest on livejournal. Can I say... go with the slash? Write slash, write smut, iconise, make banners, wear rainbows and feel no shame for what you are.
This public service announcement has been brought to you by a pissedoff!Raven and a great deal of caffiene.
Thank you.
~Raven.
