Those who claim their religious beliefs can trump the individual rights of American citizens should at least have the intestinal fortitude to stand behind their words and their vote.
I cannot so eloquently express myself as Keith Olbermann did last night, but it is he who has brought me to the keyboard to vent my frustrations, as best I can. . . Thank you K.O.
As a youth I explored my Irish heritage. Along with an appreciation of Guinness beer, I also discovered and adopted the philosophy of the Emerald Isles sanctity of marriage. No divorce. Never. . . or for them, at least until 1995, when the voters ended the "live with your mistakes" legislation. I none the less believed in the sanctity of marriage and waited until I had found the love of my life. It took forty years, but I know that I have found my (opposite sex) soul mate and that we are forever linked. From the drive-thru chapel in Las Vegas, there has been no looking back, only forward.
Unfortunately the battle we fight against same sex marriage has many theaters, California being the most visible. Their next door neighbor Arizona, my home state, also passed a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as a union between only a man and woman. Arizona already had a law stating the same, but that wasn’t enough. Unlike war, were we try to only choose the battles we can win, for basic human rights, we must fight all injustice we encounter.
If the argument of those who are determined to unjustly control others freedoms is "the sanctity of marriage", then I suggest that we offer up Prop 8.1, The Sanctity of Marriage Act. For those who believe that Earth’s rotation would stop and all would all be hurled into blasphemous, fiery deaths if gays are allowed to wed, I ask them to put their money where there mouth is. . .
Prop 8.1, The Sanctity of Marriage
Once married, you will stay married to that person of the opposite sex forever. You know forever. . . To have and to hold, to death do you part. . . better or worse. . . Richer or poorer. . . Yeah, that forever. No divorce. No annulments. If the importance of marriage is so sacred that only heterosexual couples can revel in it, then it should be elevated to the height you desire, but with it we must also demand that be affixed to this pedestal, forever.
If we allow others to recklessly swing the blunt object of marriage, we should also require them to receive the blow that said object can impact. . . Forever.