Ready for a shocking fact? 26 of the 50 United States of America have constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriages. For the mathematically challenged, that's over half of the states in the union. Would you like a list? Here's a list:
Alabama
Alaska
Arkansas
Colorado
Georgia
Idaho
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Wisconsin
Hawaii has an amendment stating that the legislature "has the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples." Voters from the state of Arizona were presented with an amendment banning same-sex marriage and voted it down by a slim margin. The existing amendments were all passed by a solid majority, some by an overwhelming majority (Mississippi, Alabama, Tennesse). The state of California will vote on a constitutional ban of same-sex marriage in 2008, and other states such as Florida, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania may as well.
What I can't wrap my head around is this: how and why is it legal for a state (26 of them, no less) to tell two people that they cannot be married for no other reason than because they are the same sex? Forget about all the rhetoric and politics and other bullshit, what we've got here is a civil rights issue. What we've got here is a group of people being denied a right that another group of people has. Period, full stop.
When the election rolls around in November, I might go out and vote for no other reason than to put my mark on a piece of paper, stating that, "No, I refuse to deny a basic civil right to other human beings."
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- Duke Norik
- Hi, I'm Duke. You probably don't know me in real life, and if you do, chances are you don't actually know me. But pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name. If you're here, it means you're either a manbaby nerdboi who wants to fight, or you're one of the disenfranchised, voiceless, seemingly powerless minorities who was directed my way by a like-minded individual. Welcome to all, I reckon some of you will like your stay here more than others.
1 comment:
But...but...marriage is the union of a man and a woman! That's what the bible says! The bible isn't refusing people's civil rights! God wouldn't do that! He/She/It is just and fair! Just like most of the voters!
On the upshot, all these jackasses have kids who are going around doing each other in the ass like it's going out of style because "It's not REALLY sex!" and in a few years will pushing the need for prosthetic colons. So says Dr. Drew. So say we all.
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