Huge Victory for Gay Marriage
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The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that gays cannot be prohibited from marrying under the state constitution. The court joins California and Massachusetts in allowing gay marriage, proving that it is braver and fairer on this issue than most of the country, and, unfortunately, most of the Democratic Party's leadership.
Equal rights for LGBT people is one of the most important civil rights issues of our time. Future generations, I am convinced, will enjoy these rights (if we work hard to win them!), and will look back at this time as part of the "dark ages". After all, we are still so prejudiced against gays that we decided that "separate but equal" civil unions (same concept used to justify Jim Crow segregation) are acceptable. We think gay people marrying tarnishes marriage because we think gay people are trash.
Conservatives will lead the counterattack and Democrats will be too afraid to stand up for gays while progressives demand the only acceptable solution: equal rights for all now!
Obama must change his position and support gay marriage now. Anything less would be sadly ironic prejudice. To be fair, it's not just Obama. It's America as a whole. We have to take a look in the mirror on this one.
Equal rights for LGBT people is one of the most important civil rights issues of our time. Future generations, I am convinced, will enjoy these rights (if we work hard to win them!), and will look back at this time as part of the "dark ages". After all, we are still so prejudiced against gays that we decided that "separate but equal" civil unions (same concept used to justify Jim Crow segregation) are acceptable. We think gay people marrying tarnishes marriage because we think gay people are trash.
Conservatives will lead the counterattack and Democrats will be too afraid to stand up for gays while progressives demand the only acceptable solution: equal rights for all now!
Obama must change his position and support gay marriage now. Anything less would be sadly ironic prejudice. To be fair, it's not just Obama. It's America as a whole. We have to take a look in the mirror on this one.
I believe that gay people should be given the same legal rights as heterosexuals but I also believe that gay people are making way too much of the word married and I believe heterosexuals are making way too much of not giving gay people the same legal rights they have and they too are making way too much of the word marriage.
Just my opinion! And I am most definitely not homophobic.
The word is important. To call it something less than marriage because of who is getting married is not to deliver the same thing.
Bottom line: if gay people deserve equal protection of the laws (as the Constitution says they do) then it's time to stop treating them like second class citizens. "Colored only" drinking fountains were still drinking fountains, but they were also an insult that implied inferiority.