1935 Revisited
I don’t want to scare you but I, apparently, am a very dangerous person. I am a nefarious demonic person. I aim to destroy the very fabric of the Commonwealth of Virginia. By the desire, the abhorrent desire to form a legal partnership with the person I love I am ripping away the sanctity of marriage in Virginia. By wanting my loved one to be able to legally inherit my property after death I am destroying the concept of family in Virginia. If my partner and I want to adopt a child that doesn’t have parents we are destabilizing the concept of family in Virginia.
Having problems believing this? Didn’t know that your friend John was so evil? Well neither did I until our General Assembly here in Virginia brought it to my attention. See this year the House Of Delegates (HJ586) and the State Senate (SJ337) both passed amendments to the Constitution barring marriage between anyone but a man and a woman. The two amendments now have to be merged into one document and pass another General Assembly before it can be sent to the voters so we won’t see it at the polls before 2006. The House also passed a bill (hb2868) that barred gays from adopting children. Even though there are thousands of children who don’t get adopted because they are black, latino or asian or over 5 years old and the straight couples want white infants. But better for the children to spend the rest of their childhood in an institution than in a loving home with same sex parents.
This is so ridiculous. If they really wanted to protect the sanctity of marriage wouldn’t they be outlawing divorce? Isn’t that a bigger threat to marriage? What about Neil Bush and his divorce case? What about Rush Limbaugh’s three marriages? How many adulterous affairs have politicians had? How many marriages end because of infidelity? What is the divorce rate in America today? There is no sanctity of marriage except what sanctity the two members bring into it. The government can’t cram any meaning into the institution. It has to be created by the two participants.
Virginia is preparing to pass a set of Nuremburg Laws. I feel like I should start sewing pink triangles onto my clothes. It really isn’t that great a leap from saying we can’t marry or adopt children to saying we can’t own property? To saying we have to live in a certain area in the cities? It is only a matter of time my friends. The other thing that pisses me off is the argument that gay rights organizations trot out in this campaign. They bring out the couples that have been together for 25 years, 50 years etc. We shouldn’t have to do that! We shouldn’t have to prove how “normal” we are! We shouldn’t have to prove what good parents we are. We are people just like the politician assholes who are taking our rights away. No matter if we have been dating our significant other for 15 years or 15 minutes, we should be able to marry them and adopt kids! Politicians shouldn't be able to deny a percentage of the population certain rights just to win more votes. No one group of people should be able to deny rights to another group just because they don't like them.
"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS"
~Animal Farm by George Orwell
Having problems believing this? Didn’t know that your friend John was so evil? Well neither did I until our General Assembly here in Virginia brought it to my attention. See this year the House Of Delegates (HJ586) and the State Senate (SJ337) both passed amendments to the Constitution barring marriage between anyone but a man and a woman. The two amendments now have to be merged into one document and pass another General Assembly before it can be sent to the voters so we won’t see it at the polls before 2006. The House also passed a bill (hb2868) that barred gays from adopting children. Even though there are thousands of children who don’t get adopted because they are black, latino or asian or over 5 years old and the straight couples want white infants. But better for the children to spend the rest of their childhood in an institution than in a loving home with same sex parents.
This is so ridiculous. If they really wanted to protect the sanctity of marriage wouldn’t they be outlawing divorce? Isn’t that a bigger threat to marriage? What about Neil Bush and his divorce case? What about Rush Limbaugh’s three marriages? How many adulterous affairs have politicians had? How many marriages end because of infidelity? What is the divorce rate in America today? There is no sanctity of marriage except what sanctity the two members bring into it. The government can’t cram any meaning into the institution. It has to be created by the two participants.
Virginia is preparing to pass a set of Nuremburg Laws. I feel like I should start sewing pink triangles onto my clothes. It really isn’t that great a leap from saying we can’t marry or adopt children to saying we can’t own property? To saying we have to live in a certain area in the cities? It is only a matter of time my friends. The other thing that pisses me off is the argument that gay rights organizations trot out in this campaign. They bring out the couples that have been together for 25 years, 50 years etc. We shouldn’t have to do that! We shouldn’t have to prove how “normal” we are! We shouldn’t have to prove what good parents we are. We are people just like the politician assholes who are taking our rights away. No matter if we have been dating our significant other for 15 years or 15 minutes, we should be able to marry them and adopt kids! Politicians shouldn't be able to deny a percentage of the population certain rights just to win more votes. No one group of people should be able to deny rights to another group just because they don't like them.
"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS"
~Animal Farm by George Orwell
posted by JohnXIV at 11:15 PM
2 Comments:
oh John...sorry to sound so damned 56 years of age, but the basic nature of man is terrified (of everything), hopeful (for security and ease), loving (of what it knows) and loping toward the ultimate: death and darkness, the most unknowable...so, all that by way of saying that unfortunately nothing surprises me anymore that man does, EXCEPT love each other...that still surprises me...poor Virginia, poor NY City (we just have the same law makers with different accents)...rage is the right response...but so is faith and prayer...we can pray a mountain will disappear,that time and erosion will make it smaller, go around it, or keep trying to climb it, and sometimes the climb is just too strenuous to bear..the most powerful thing we can possibly do is keep loving, which seems the most impossible thing of all...i was very fond of your IOLANTHE quote...my favorite G and S....i send love...xxevalyn
john,
permission requested to copy your entry to my journal, because i want more people to see it. i agree with you whole heartedly. i wish all people could open their eyes and see the injustice that exists then make a decision to change it and follow through with their decision. and yes, i realize i don't live a gay lifestyle or an african-american or asian-american or eskimo indian lifestyle for that matter, but i firmly believe in equality. i believe in the "american way" of life, liberty and justice for all people, of freedom to make decisions, to take the consequences that one's decisions make, but most of all i believe in the opportunity for people to make those decisions. whether it's as simple as being able to speak your mind without being threatened to as complex as spending a lifetime with someone. so with that said, can i copy your post? and i guess, i can break down and give you the link to my journal. with the promise that you won't fire me or place me in a mental hospital.=)
butrfli
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