Loaded Words

01 Aug 2003 By

I wonder how much the Gay Marriage Issue would change if we – everybody – simply stopped calling it marriage and started calling it a civil union.

  • http://www.sketchesofstrain.com/ David Strain

    I’ve been cutting throats and kicking people’s asses over at my blog about the gay marriage issue. People can be almost perversely stupid on this topic.

    D

  • http://picklejuice.yatescentral.com Natalie

    You can’t change the name, because that would be separating Church and State! You just *cannot* do that in this country…

  • http://thewatergirl.blogspot.com the watergirl

    oh man. don’t get me started on the idiots of this world. fucking bush, fucking a.

  • http://greybird.blogspot.com greybird

    It’s all about semantics, baby.

    I don’t give a rats ass what they call it as long is it means I get the same legal rights and benefits as straight people who are hitched.

    Chances are that calling it something different, while still meaning the same thing, would actually go a long way.

  • http://www.dawnpennington.com dawn

    Funny, I was also wondering why marriage has anything to do with a church (the words are, unfortunately, practically synonymous). I’m agnostic, and if I ever find someone who *wants* to marry me, why should I have to have the remotest inkling of religion (and therefore, to me, hypocrisy) infiltrating my union?

  • http://www.kazoofus.com Kathy Howe

    Have I mentioned that I hate our president?

  • http://www.rossirant.com rossi

    hmmm
    interesting
    for moi its all sentimental
    i want to be able to marry my woman
    i want to say i am married
    this is my wife

    im an old fashioned gal

    who knew?

  • http://virtualverbosity.blogspot.com Simon

    It’s issues like this that make me ashamed to say I work for the U.S. government. They don’t want to let gay people get married, but instead, they spend taxpayer money to ram abstinence down kids’ throats, and now they wanna run a program encouraging welfare recipients to get married. I guess there are no lesbians on welfare anywhere in America… I just want one of the Bush twins to get knocked up, and the other to come out. Then someone could say to Bush “How do ya like them apples” ala Matt Damon in “Good Will Hunting.”

    **By the by, Irk, if you’re still coming to the wedding on the 16th, I think I may have someone you wanna meet.**

  • http://www.johnkusch.com John Kusch

    Personally, I don’t care what it’s called either, as long as I get half, you know?

    The thing is, if we say “civil unions” instead of “marriage”, we’ll gain *some* support, but there will still be that solid bloc of hard-core anti-gay Americans who don’t want us to have *any* sort of relationships at all. In fact, they don’t want us to exist.

    So I’m of two minds. On the one hand, sure let’s compromise and get ours and leave the “marriage” battle for another day. On the other hand, I’m like, “Why the fuck should I take a step back as a ‘compromise’ when they’re the ones doing all the pushing?”

    I mean, I didn’t even *do* anything, besides get a joint checking account and a lease with both our names — *they’re* the ones trying to pass all the laws and shit.