How Getting Married Made Me An Activist

Gays and lesbians are wierd. They are self-centered and give bad impacts on generations to come.They even have the cheek to take care of children with their bad example. If they have their sexual problems, then they should solve them and not force society to accomodate their problems. They are not the majority and in a democracy the majority normal-human-being wins. Gays and lesbians are the bad guys (wrong-doers) just like the thieves. Should society accomodate thieves? No, of course not. They should be sent to jail or the correctional centres..

Why do gays like to play the victim so much? They act as if they are forced to attend separate schools or drink from separate drinking fountains. The people decided that marriage is between a man and a woman and the gay rights activists act as if they are second class citizens. Wake up! Turn on the television, and you will see that our culture celebrates gays and accepts their lifestyle just fine. Last I checked, a gay man or a lesbian has the exact same legal rights as me, has just as good a chance of being hired to a job as me, and can live wherever he or she wants, just like me. What the author fails to understand is that homosexuality has and always will be a small, yet vocal minority. Why then should the majority of our society be FORCED to accept their lifestyle as good? That right there is a blatant violation of my civil right to believe what I want to believe without being labeled a bigot or intolerant.

Here's the bottom line folks. CIVIL RIGHTS ARE NOT TO BE VOTED ON, THEY ARE A GIVEN.

The republic for which we stand is not a democracy. It is a Constitutional Republic that protects the rights of the individual against the tyranny of the majority.

The divorce rate is 50%. We have made a mockery out of the institution of marriage and yet, we seem to think that we are holier than thou and have somehow earned the right to tell people who can and can't get married. We have destroyed the lives of millions of children and cost the taxpayers billions in court and family services costs. It seems that us straight people are the ones who should be prohibited from getting married.

The S70 million spent fighting about this could have started 100 companies and the thousands of people that they employed would have been employed well after Christmas. The money that they would be spending would be employing several thousand more people. The few companies that survived would have employed several thousand more. When you lose your job, you have a good chance of also losing your marriage. Gay people are not stealing your husbands and wives.

Be free and let others do the same.

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Americans, mainly our younger generation, don't want these types of obstacles, like Prop 8, in our path towards individual rights in a nation that was founded on the principles of "freedom and equality for all" and "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Even before the controversy of same-sex matrriage is decided in our court system, namely the US Supreme Court, I foresee Congress passing the Employee Non-Discrimnation Act or ENDA during President-elect Obama's first term in office. This bill failed to pass in the US Senate in 1996. One of the senators who voted against this bill was Sen. John McCain of AZ.
God Bless America.

Our Founding Fathers never wanted Washington DC to be caught in the middle of religious and political arguments towards matters of this kind. If the federal government allowed itself to accept the Pro-Life opinions that life begins at the moment of conception, then it is plausible for those who believe this that somehow the pregnant mother and the physician whom she requests to perform an abortion would be commtting some form of murder in the eyes of these Pro-Life beleivers. This is why the majority views of Pro-Choice Americans and the historic case of Roe v. Wade will always be the law of this land. Our nation's Founding Fathers never wanted Washington DC to be caught in the middle of the arguments regarding the definition of marriage. There has never been a legal defintion of marriage until gay Americans pursued that civil right. Is it really the duty of state legislators and US congressmen to define the act of marriage? Shouldn't those US citizens who want to enter into marriage have the right to do so? If current legislation banning gay marriage is allowed to stand, then it is quite safe to say that government accepted a defintion of marriage based on the views of religious groups and political parties which oppose same-sex marriage, just as they opposed inter-racial marriage in America's not-to-distant past. This is why the opposing arguments towards defining marriage in order to deny minority groups this right, will be eventually seen for what they are, which is discriminatory.
The American people, mainly younger Americans, have now come to view these "hot button" social issues with more of a "constitutional" mindset rather than a "religious" one. The contradictions of the Conservatives and the religious right with regards to individual freedoms is just one of many reasons why Americans are choosing a more liberal, and also secular-toned government to lead in Washington DC. Conservatives have blazed the trails when it comes to certain individual rights (whether that be the right to prayer, right to bear arms, right to life, capital punishment, etc) though their trail-blazing seems to end when those pursuing rights just so happen to be in conflict with their religious views. In this case with gay Americans. It has been Liberals and civil right activists who have fought for Womens'Suffrage, Abolishment of Segregation, Womens'Reproductive Rights, Voting rights, Freedom of Speech, Americans with Disabilities, and most recently Gay civil rights.

Thanks David for the comprehensive history of the gay movement starting with Stonewall , Harvey Milk, and Bryant. We've come a long way, and have focused the rights of gays as a Civil Right Issue. We are born gay, we are noemal, and we are equal citizens demanding our equal rights. Phil & I married in Mass. in 04 and are dilligent at promoting our cause, which is all of the rights granted to us and holding on to all of our rights.

Dave: What a GREAT ARTICLE on the gay rights movement and congratulations to you and Jeff for stepping up and practicing what you preach. Harvey Milk and Stonewall where my partner Phil and I came out and realized that standing proud and fighting for our equal rights would be an ongoing battle. Bryant the Orange Juice Bitch and the right wing Christians try to define and destroy us, but we have the Constitution and Resolve on our side. Thanks for everything you do.