If you go back and read my comments, I have never said that we should get rid of marriage altogether. If somebody wants to call their partnership a marriage then they have every right to. I am not "legally" married and yet I call myself married for convenience when talking to people. My SO is more than just a boyfriend or lover (hell he'd better be after ten years *grin*) so husband is the closest word to describe what he is to me.
What I am trying to say is that the word marriage has too much emotion invested in it and people on all sides are never going to give an inch in this battle. And it is causing a lot of heartache for hundreds of thousands of United States citizens because they are not allowed the same rights and protections as straight people.
As long as the word marriage is used, the fundamentalists will continue to block legal same-sex unions. I wish it weren't so. I wish that everybody could get married to the person or people of their choice, but that is not likely to happen anytime soon.
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ellen_datlow) wrote2008-07-29 08:35 pm
Re: You don't get to say I'm not married
What I am trying to say is that the word marriage has too much emotion invested in it and people on all sides are never going to give an inch in this battle. And it is causing a lot of heartache for hundreds of thousands of United States citizens because they are not allowed the same rights and protections as straight people.
As long as the word marriage is used, the fundamentalists will continue to block legal same-sex unions. I wish it weren't so. I wish that everybody could get married to the person or people of their choice, but that is not likely to happen anytime soon.