Some good words
Posted: Sunday, May 31, 2009 by Travis Cody inI read some words that impacted me the other day.
"...if you don't know how to love around your differences, then you don't really know how to love."
"...how is it that perfect strangers won't even do my father the courtesy of not going out of their way just to stand in his?"
These words were written by Stinson Carter in a piece on Huffington Post called When the People Are Wrong -- A Son's Defense of His Father's Gay Marriage.
Pam and I don't want to be married. It's not important to us. We love and we live. But if we decided to marry in order to take advantage of certain rights and responsibilities that accrue to married couples, then nobody would say boo.
But if circumstances were different and I wanted to marry my life partner who just happened to be a guy named Mike, or Pam wanted to marry her life partner who happened to be a gal named Susan, well a bunch of people have decided that it's their business to stop us from doing that.
I have never read or heard a valid argument for denying any consenting adult in the LGBT community the right to be married to his or her life partner. Frankly, I don't believe such an argument exists.
I support marriage equality.
I've never understood why some feel so threatened by the idea of two people of the same gender who wish to marry. How does it harm me if Tom and Jeff decide to put a legal bind on their relationship? It doesn't, but still some think they have to need and the right to legislate the so-called morality of others.
I don't get it. At all.