⛧ First Church of Hypocrisy, Blasphemy, and Self-Righteousness ⛧

"But how do I explain homosexuality to my kids?"

Well gee maybe if you would decouple sex from love you’d have an easier time of that. The sex part can come later, but I’m pretty sure even a toddler can understand two people being in love with each other. Stop making lame excuses for being a bigoted idiot.

I felt this bit from a meme post deserved its own post.

92. Do you want to get married?
Honestly, no. I used to wonder why so many people were obsessed with gay marriage. I couldn't understand why straight people get married, even, and even though I'm pansexual, I didn't get why gay marriage was so important. But then I found out about the rights and privileges that go with marriage, and because it's a matter of gay people needing the same rights as straight people, I began to support it, even though I still - to this day - can't fathom why anyone would want to tie themselves down like that. Sure, I understand living with someone you love, done it myself in fact. But the act of marriage is such a difficult thing to go through, legally speaking, and even harder to extricate oneself from, and it implies permanence; it defies the fact of life that the only constant is change. I can understand making a non legally-binding oath to try to live together and love one another for as long as possible, even if the type of love you feel changes, and I admire those who can manage it. I just don't see the point of getting yourself tangled up in a legal mess like that, when there are no guarantees. Hell, if it's a matter of what happens to your stuff after you die, a will can take care of that without marriage.

Personally, I think non-married lovers should have at least some of the same kinds of rights as married couples, like hospital visitation rights. It seems a bit unfair, to me, to say "you have to take this humongous legal risk in order to visit your loved one in the hospital." I can understand ownership of property and money being decided, at least in part, by marriage; some of the legal tangles are a very good idea. But hospital visitation rights... friends, family, non-married loved ones, anyone special in your life should have to right to visit you in the hospital unless you specify otherwise.

My parents, by the way, are divorced. And it was a bit of a surprise, honestly, when I got the news. They had always gotten along great, as far as I could tell; but a lot had changed since I'd last lived with them. (Though they still love one another, and still meet with each other to talk; they just can't live together anymore.)

Still... my opinion of marriage is one I've had for many years before that happened, so I had that belief despite the fact my parents seemed to be in a very long and very happy marriage. Their divorce only reinforced my previous belief, that marriage is a lot of hassle for very little gain that I can see. So marriage equality is something I support even though the whole notion of marriage seems silly and outdated to me.

TL;DR = I support marriage equality even though I think marriage is an outdated and stupid concept.