Reply #56: I think you all should get out more....

[CivilRightsNow]

You'd be quite surprised at what IMHO the majority of those that I come into contact with feel about the gay marriage hooplah. Even my liberal straight friends have no desire to see gay "marriage" become a reality.

Marriage...

For thousands of years it has been between a man and a woman. THOUSANDS of years. In non religious societies like the pagans.. the romans (who even condoned homosexuality much more then we do in the present day) there still was never marriage between two people of the same sex.

If two people of the same sex can get "married", I see no reason why a person has to even marry in species.. or why polygamy could be held as illegal. Polygamists and beastiality specialists.. get ready! Your day is coming too!

I love that this party can get behind something like this. But let's take the war on drugs that has been imprisoning nonviolent good people in the millions for 50 years now... that has been ruining lives and families...

Screw them, let them rot in jail. Let their civil rights to do with their body what they wish go down the toilet.. but yeah, gay marriage is a fight that really needed this prominence right now. Every other civil rights movement didnt have to work for years.. for decades to change the public opinion.

But you guys are here, and you're queer and you want every damn thing you can get right frigging now. It's your right!!

As a woman still dealing with the glass ceiling, with screwed up ideas of beauty and gender roles.. and oh so much else... 40+ years after the equality movement really swung into full gear, I dont feel an iota of sympathy for this blatent power grab and it is doing nothing but alienating a whole subsect of people who once had sympathy for this cause. You should hear why my african american friends have to say about it.. and just how much they appreciate the gay and lesbian movement trying to coopt their civil rights struggle and make it seem like they are one and the same..