arw9797 said:
Also according to yahoo news:
"Voters in nine states OK gay marriage bans"
Why the fuck does this matter to anyone if two people want to get married?
This is why I stay out of FYM.......
i don't understand why it's a big issue. this sanctimony of marriage crap is just that--CRAP. personally, this has no bearing on my life, and i don't really care either way, but so what if two gay people want to get married? they're not hurting you and your heterosexual marriage, they might as well be allowed.
you know, i don't think i've ever seen a valid reason for banning it, the only arguement i've seen is "oh well it says so in the bible" blah blah blah, and that's not a valid arguement because of a little thing called seperation of church and state.
"it's just wierd" isn't really a valid arguement, either, although i admit in the back of my head i would find it a little wierd if my aunt and her partner got married. although i probably wouldn't be invited to the wedding. i can't stand my aunt, although it's got nothing to do with her sexual orientation, she's just not a very nice person. she's declined invitations to go out to dinner with us (my mom, sister, brother and me) and my grandma because she's convinced that my siblings and i are incapable of behaving properly in public. funny thing is, when my mom finished her degree at smith, all of us went out to eat, including my great aunt and great uncle who were visiting from maryland. my aunt was the one who acted like 2 year old, she got offended by EVERY single joke ANYONE told, cracked shitloads of inside jokes with my great aunt (the only things that were funny were the jokes no one else at the table understood), and started yelling at me that i better not make any comments about bleeding meat or anything and she was going to order a nice, big rare steak so i better just live with it.