Commandment 11: Thou Shalt Not Deliberately Misrepresent My Words To Get Votes

Yesterday there was a Gilmore Girls marathon. In the midst of all of the Gilmore-y goodness was the most despicable commercial I have ever seen, and that is saying something considering the amount of television I have watched over the course of my lifetime. The commercial featured two men, who looked like brothers, who said that they had been partners for eleven years. They went on to say that the men and women lobbying for gay marriage were wrong. They said that they had taken the "proper legal steps" to make sure each was taken care of in terms of benefits and to say that the homosexual population deserved the right to marry legally was downright wrong. At first I was thinking, "Okay, I can dig this. They're saying that wanting marriage specifically for the purpose of health coverage is wrong. I can get behind that....sort of." Then to my complete horror, the men went on to state that marriage should be between a man and a woman, that they didn't feel like they should be allowed to be married and they hoped everybody would join them in voting yes on measure 36.

HOW FUCKING HYPOCRITICAL IS THAT???

I wanted so badly to take a step back from this and look at it from a words-only perspective. I wanted to take a look at Measure 36 and what it is actually saying and to trounce it from a non-emotional standpoint.

Screw that noise.

The commercial featured two gay men saying that they didn't feel they should have the right to get married. If they feel that marriage should be between men and women only, doesn't that sort of put a damper on their lifestyle? After all, the measure talks about protecting marraige for the sake of the children, so does this couple feel that their lifestyle would contribute to the denigration of our nation's youth? If they do feel that way then wouldn't that mean that, in some small way, they felt there was something wrong about their lifestyle? After all, if children shouldn't be subjected to it, what makes it different from all of the other "dark forces" we try to shield our children from? If they do feel then, that there is something wrong with their lifestyle THEN WHY THE HELL ARE THEY LIVING IT??

I don't believe for even two seconds that the couple featured in the commercial is a legitimate gay couple. I mean, I've heard of people starting to look alike after they've been together for a long time, but these guys looked like they once shared an egg. I believe that the commercial was thought up by those Ignorant, Narrowminded, Ultra-Conservative, Republican-Reich Freaks to try and prove that "not even the gays really want to be married, it's just the liberal agenda to spread the gay disease" (quote entirely made up by me, but without a doubt in my mind that it will be used in the future by Ann Coulter). To try and prove something like this, in this way, is just so completely Wrong. It's Evil.

Why why WHY can't those Jackasses leave this issue alone??? Why can't people be allowed to marry who they want to marry? The law against close relatives marrying was created in the interest of biology. It was legal at one time. It was even the practice among the elite (brings a whole new meaning to "keep it in the family" doesn't it). The laws against marrying minors were created to keep children from being exploited--so that Sick Harry couldn't wed ten year old Jane and use her as a sex slave under the sanctity of the marriage shield. If a man marries another man (or a woman weds a woman) the world will not collapse. If anything it will grow. Its emotional core will expand to maybe help our future generations realize that different does not equal bad or evil, it just equals different.

I HATE that I live in a country where marraige means nothing more to some people than a means to control the population. I HATE that I live in a state that would air such a completely ignorant commercial.

There is such a thing as the separation of church and state. To give states the right to decide who can and cannot be married negates that separation. All I hear from the other side is that it is God's law. Well I have trouble believing in a God who would want two people who love each other kept apart because some ignorant bigots just didn't get it. You people preach and thump your bibles to the tune of a loving God, a God who cares equally for all of his children. You preach that God loves all of us so much that any pain inflicted upon his children, regardless of who they are, causes him pain. You say we should all love each other for our differences and respect each other's beliefs and lifestyles because when all is said and done we are all God's children. Then you turn around and smite those you don't understand. You do everything in your power to force people to live by God's law and assume that there is one central version by which we all must abide. Who the hell decides what that central tenet is? Is it the people who have the most money? Or should we vote on that in the next election?

There are plenty of people in this state (and this country) who do not believe in the Bible, or even in God. Why should their lives be governed by something they don't believe in? What makes your belief more important than mine? Why do you, some Ignorancejockey I've never met, get to control My life?

Here's a thought: Let's do away with marriage all together. Let's say that all "marriages" will really be Civil Unions, cemented by Committment Ceremonies. After all, if a Civil Union is "just as good" as marriage, then why all the fuss? Why can't we heterosexuals give something up for a change? Maybe instead of trying to keep other people out of the clubhouse, we should just not play there anymore.