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How depressing. It really bums me out that bigots have to works so hard and spend so much money just to keep other human beings from having equal rights. Fuck.
thenewgreen · 4615 days ago · link ·
FUCK is right. I'm just sad right now because people that I KNOW are celebrating this as some sort of victory preserving "marriage". Don't they see that they're the exact same type of people that would have preserved the purity of marriage by denying whites and blacks to marry? The same people that forced the use of separate bathrooms and drinking fountains for the "colored". When their children grow up, they're going to ask them how they voted today and they might as well tell them they were one of the guys in this photo
Wake up people, what are you afraid of? When I was recently in NYC I saw the best billboard I've ever seen, it read: "If you don't like gay marriage, then don't get gay married". -This about sums it up for me. Keep your hate to yourself.
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It is a form of hate, and it is pure bigotry. As is often the case though, the people facilitating it sincerely feel that they have good reason to actively perpetuate this inequality. Most are religious, and it is very telling that they cannot tolerate making their case directly to people, and instead have to rely on making it illegal for others to make a choice they would not make for themselves. You don't see them trying to make constitutional amendments making it illegal to work on a Sunday, or eat shellfish, or take the lord's name in vain, or any number of things the Bible says are wrong. They reserve a special vitriol for gay people, All in defense of an instititution that has, throughout human history, never had anything less than a breathtaking number of variations and definitions, both culturally and legally. It disgusts me.
Every person that voted in favor of that is a moral and intellectual coward at worst, and at best incredibly ignorant. To be fair, the religious indoctrination most of them are acting out puts them squarely in the ignorant camp. Plenty of nice, mostly benign and well intentioned, incredibly ignorant human beings, perpetuating hate.