Just in time for the upcoming presidential election, the non-issue of gay marriage is resurfacing. Thanks to a recent California Supreme Court decision, a law banning gay marriage in that state was struck down — once again, something for conservatives to rally around.
This is an issue for candidates who have nothing else to talk about. It’s an issue for candidates with no new ideas. It’s an issue for candidates who are embarrassed to talk about their own records, or the record of their party. It’s an issue meant to distract from real issues. And, it’s an issue that has nothing to do with “morality” or “preserving family values” but rather an issue with a single purpose — to gain or keep political power. Opponents of gay marriage KNOW it won’t undermine the moral fabric of the United States. Hell, there are too many other ways to do that, and we’ve done just about all of them
For instance, we’ve perpetuated a health-care system that leaves tens of millions of people without health care. We’ve allowed our infrastructure to decay. We’ve left education as an afterthought. We invaded a country that did nothing to us and ruined our credibility as a the leader of the free world. We are a country that would elect an idiot as president simply because he was opposed to gay marriage. What jerks we are.
We need to put first things first. We ought to also acknowledge that, like it or not, the Constitution already guarantees equal rights for all, under the law, via the Fourteenth Amendment. For that reason alone we should realize that any law that prohibits marriage based on gender is already unconstitutional… like it or not.
Personally, I don’t care who gets married. If two people love each other, who am I to tell them they can’t marry? If two men or two women marry, my world won’t come to an end. I won’t feel a thing, except happiness for them, wherever they are. I won’t feel the kind of pain that I feel when I go to the grocery store or gas station. I won’t feel the kind of shame I feel when I hear the news about more deaths in Iraq. My heart won’t ache like it does for the young mother who can’t get health care for herself and her children because she’s poor. I won’t be embarrassed as I am when I hear how poorly our students fare compared to students from other industrialized countries. I won’t worry as I do when I drive across a highway overpass, wondering if it will collapse.
Can you imagine someone putting all these considerations aside when making their choice come election day, selecting instead someone who will make them safe from gay marriage? I sure can’t.
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