Your Reason Doesn’t Count

21 Feb 2004 By

What the fuck part of that don’t you understand?

Why exactly are religious folks opposed to gay marriage? The most fashionable argument against it is that it undermines the institution of marriage (and therefore family and therefore society), but I can’t help but think this is a poll-tested idea that doesn’t really get at the true feelings of the advocates; in the Pew poll, few people opposing the notion of gay marriage offered that up as the main reason. Most said, instead, that gay marriage and homosexuality were inherently “wrong” or violated their religious beliefs.

  • http://www.funkalicious.us Funkalicious

    I’m not a religious person in any sense, but I honestly don’t get it when these wanks argue that it’s “God’s” idea of marriage being only between a man and a woman. Hello! God never stated his feelings on the subject and neither did Jesus Christ. All this rhetoric came from a few verses in a time and culture-bound book that is in no way the “word” of a higher being. Those few verses, while not only being grossly misinterpreted, are simply an excuse for the religious right’s platform of hatred and exclusion. Fuck those people!

  • http://www.qoae.net Rosemary the Queen of All Evil

    You remember where I was a year ago? Now I’m on the phone with congressmen and issuing threats of voter retaliation. I’m on their asses like a nasty festering boil. Who’d ever thought I was capable of being such an antagonistic bitch?

    People can change if they allow themselves to think. They won’t think if you aren’t there to make them. YOU are one of the reasons I changed. Look at what you have done!

    Keep fightin’. I will too.

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    Well, damn, Rosemary. That might be one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said to me.

    I can’t thank you enough for your support.

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

    i’m so pissed off at “christians” trying to play the “THE COUNTRY MUST DEFINE MARRIAGE” game. seriously, these people are too stupid to even consider that the damned mass supreme court is DEFENDING PEOPLE’S RIGHTS and not “legislating from the bench” … just because the majority is against it DOESN’T mean it shouldn’t exist. the majority is for/against a lot of stupid things. the reason we have a judicial branch is to make sure the majority doesn’t step on the minority.

    augh, i just hate people sometimes.