Calling In Gay
Hey Folks,
No blog today, I'm calling in gay! (I'm straight, don't get any ideas, but I have a gay-pass for today)
I'm sick about the inability of some fundamentalist folks to recognize that marriage is a CONTRACT. If you want to make it a sacrament, please do so with the help of your local religious authority. When Gerry and I were legally married it was by a JUDGE, and the next day we had what we called our "spiritual" ceremony with poems and readings by friends.
I'm not saying everyone should do it this way, but I don't see why anyone has the right to infringe on the rights of others to enter into a contract (boy how I wish Jon Stewart would have brought that up when talking with Mike Huckabee last night - probably one of the most endearing advocates against equal marriage rights, but he's still wrong...)
Hey - I guess this DID turn into a blog post. Never mind. My volunteer work for today? Taking Gerry around to various appts to deal with his increasing pain. And I got him a humidifier (won't that just make everything better?)
No blog today, I'm calling in gay! (I'm straight, don't get any ideas, but I have a gay-pass for today)
I'm sick about the inability of some fundamentalist folks to recognize that marriage is a CONTRACT. If you want to make it a sacrament, please do so with the help of your local religious authority. When Gerry and I were legally married it was by a JUDGE, and the next day we had what we called our "spiritual" ceremony with poems and readings by friends.
I'm not saying everyone should do it this way, but I don't see why anyone has the right to infringe on the rights of others to enter into a contract (boy how I wish Jon Stewart would have brought that up when talking with Mike Huckabee last night - probably one of the most endearing advocates against equal marriage rights, but he's still wrong...)
Hey - I guess this DID turn into a blog post. Never mind. My volunteer work for today? Taking Gerry around to various appts to deal with his increasing pain. And I got him a humidifier (won't that just make everything better?)
Feed me, baby!
11 Comments:
Love the post! I'm not gay either, but am absolutely FOR Gay Marriage! (I also want to legalize pot and prostitution, so we can tax the pants off of it!) It shouldn't be easy to break apart a long-standing relationship, just because you're gay. Marriage is a social contract, not a religious one (unless you want it to be).
If Gays want to "share the pain" of marriage with us old married folks......MORE POWER TO 'EM.
I wish I could "Call In Gay" today. I gotta go host a party....no time for knitting!
Actually, this time of year, or any time the air is very dry, a humidifier is a great help. The most important thing is to not let it run dry and to make sure it's kept c;ean from the buggies that will invade the dampness. It will help your house from 'shocking' you!
I wish I could call in GAY today. but knitters need help with their last minute Christmas gifts and I can't let them down.
Count me in as a hetero who is pro marriage for everyone. (who wants it)
Isn't it best to encourage monogamy?????
It seems ironic to me that the same people who castigate gay folks for being morally loose are the same people who deny gay people the right to marriage. I agree with Peglett's comment, "Isn't it best to encourage monogam???" And who was it who said, "If you want to protect marriage, outlaw divorce." (Though, like Prohibition that probably would not work anyway.) One last thought, in mainline Protestant Christian churches, marriage is not a sacrament (only baptism and Holy Communion are), but in the Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches, at least, it is a sacrament - which Webster defines as a "visible sign of grace" - which is pretty funny if you think about some of the graceless marriages you may know. Keep up the great work, Annie.
Joan
I saw an article ab our calling in gay in the Trib the other day & thought what a great idea. I'm retired so I can't call in anything but I agree with you about how too many people forget that marriage is actually a legal contract, entered into by 2 people & enforced by the state. Too many people confuse the sacrament of marriage with the legal contract. Several years ago (when the gay marriage issue first started coming up), I was in a Yahoo group with mostly people from Baton Rouge La & that area. They kept saying the same thing - GOD wants marriage to be between one man & one woman (how do they know what God wants? seems arrogant to me). They just could not accept that the state issues marriage licenses because it is enforcing a legal contract & that there are different rules for the religious sacrament of marriage. Maybe this is easier for me to grasp because I was raised Catholic & it was pounded into us that a legal marriage is not a religious marriage & that, if you are not married in a Catholic rite, you are considered not married in the eyes of the church. Personally, I am now an unbeliever - in religion & marriage but wouldn't dream of interfering with someone else's right to involve themselves in either. Ad I really can't understand how someone could think that allowing gays to marry & form solid family relationships would weaken society. Seems to me exactly the opposite would be true - as Keith Olberman so movingly put it - how can anyone be against anything that brings a little more love into this world?
Total agreement here - marriage was a religious construct that the state conveniently rode the coattails of for legal reasons. Time to separate the two and make everyone (gay, hetero, or bi) who wants a legal marriage to have a civil union and those who want a holy union to connect with the church of their choice. But the latter won't have legal consequences.
The problem is that here in US, religious officials are given licenses by the state to conduct marriage ceremonies. Hence, the legal contract in a religious setting. Personally, I think it's time to separate these aspects , and copy the French system in some form, such that people who want to have their unions legalized can do it through the civil court. They can then get their unions spirtually blessed however they want. This would go a long way in solving this issue and making everybody happy without having to violate their particular belief system.
Marriage is a contract and can be for many things. If you can, watch final episode of Boston Legal. Two straight men get married because one is in the early stages of Alzheimer's and wanted the other to be able to make the decisions a spouse can make that no other legally assigned partner can, as well as get the money (no heirs).
Marriage is a contract that can be made for a variety of reasons. Love being one of them.
Great post, Annie.
Great post indeed. I'm tired of one sector of the population treating the other sector as though they aren't entitled to the same freedoms I have.
A civil union is a contract. I think anyone who wants to get together for a civil union has every right. Marriage is between a man and woman and blessed by the type of religious affiliation of the couple's choice.
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