More on Gay Marriage

Yes, I am extremely passionate about this issue. You'll probably hear a lot more of my whining and bitching before this issue is resolved, and hopefully the resolution will be a civilized one.

What is this with the constituation ban on gay marriage? Our president wants to add discrimination into the amendments? Isn't that against what us Americans have been fighting for? The ultimate equality? If homosexuals are discriminated in the Constitution what's next? Do they still have equal rights at their work places? Where do you draw the line? This is simply outrageous. And that is what I meant by religious people are selfish and narrow-minded.

One guy's justification for his opposition was that "how do I explain this to my son?" Um... I don't know. Have you tried telling him it's a good thing for two person who are in love, regardless of their genders, to choose to spend their lives together? What do you tell your son about the Catholic priests molesting boys his age? Or that the Dioeces are protecting these criminals? What do you tell your son about the enraged man who murdered his wife? Or the wife who was tired of spousal abuse and ended up finally shooting her husband? Or the father who impregnant his biological daughter and the mother who doesn't want her daughter to say a word about it? What do you tell him?

Some compared the gay marriage issue with when Blacks were asked to sit on the back of a bus. Some (all?) in the Black communities do not appreciate this comparison. In my opinion (not being Black), they are identical. Discrimination is discrimination. A few decades ago interracial marriage was illegal. There are no justification for discrimination.