Score one for team gay - yay
Civil Unions, commitment ceremonies, marriages, for me they are all the same thing. If you love someone and you decide to spend the rest of you lives together and you feel you need a state issued piece of paper then do it! If you feel that you don’t then don’t do it. It’s pretty simple yet our fine state of Vermont (along with a lot of other states) feel like they have to get into the marriage business.
Me personally, I’m one of those “I don’t care” guys, if you want to get married get married whether you are marrying the same sex or not. If you can sign the marriage license please by all means jump in and help out the divorce rate. So I get a little perplexed that people feel the need to stop a gay marriage or relabel it to something they can live with.
Years ago I had a neighbor, that neighbor painted their living space black! Now it’s not right for me that I can tell you, but it clearly made my neighbor happy so who was I to draw down judgment? Nobody got hurt; they made the decision to paint themselves so God Bless! I honestly feel the same way about the whole Gay Marriage issue; I don’t know why it’s an issue, why it concerns anyone and why anyone cares. It baffles me to no end why it’s different because of your sexual preference. But to Jim Douglas it did! He already said that if the bill passed he would veto it. He went on to say that we have more pressing things to concern ourselves with, like the economy. Now I do agree with Governor Douglas, the economy concerns me greatly, a lot more then whether two men want to marry one another. But let’s not use the economy as an excuse because we all know that the veto would have happened during a boom economy as well. Which leads me to an even bigger question? Did Douglas’ veto in turn veto his Political career in Vermont?
This country elected it’s first Black President, something I though wouldn’t happen in my life time. I believed it wouldn’t happen because I believe there’s a lot of ignorance out there. Please don’t take that the wrong way, I’m not suggesting that if you voted the McCain / Palin ticket in the last election that you’re ignorant. I’m merely suggesting that there are still a ton of people that judge the package and not the contents. That being said I really do view the Same Sex Marriage thing much in the same way I believe it’s a ton of ignorance that keeps this up for discussion (you could factor in some fear as well). It doesn’t fall into the “norm” category so people struggle with it, when they probably shouldn’t.
Another discussion that I’ve found myself in several times, is the very thought of a gay couple raising a child. Again I defer to common sense and reason; it doesn’t matter to me as long as that child is raised by loving parents that teach them between right and wrong. And to those of you that believe being raised by homosexual parents will determine the child’s sexuality let me offer up this, it’s true Homosexual parents will raise homosexual children just as heterosexual parents raise heterosexual children – sorry I couldn’t resist. Hopefully you see where I was going with that, it’s ignorance and closed minded.
Same sex marriage to me is marriage with two extra words. I believe that no matter what sex you’re marrying you have the rights that marriage brings, which includes health insurance, making medical decisions, being able to file your taxes jointly. It also means all the stereo typical things that a marriage is, arguments over where to eat, who’ll unload the dishwasher, picking up the underwear on the floor. For me a marriage is a marriage gay or straight, there’s no difference as long as you love one another and we all know love is blind but marriage is definitely an eye-opener – What the hell is up with that?
