Meanwhile, in the heart of middle-America, two women who love each other, have created a life together over the past 18 years, are raising three kids together, & can’t get any legal recognition for their relationship?
Let me get this straight… It’s OK for some faded movie star, who isn’t remembered by anyone under the age of 40, to walk down the aisle six, seven, eight, or even nine times? And each time smile for the cameras & pronounce, “This time it’s the real thing!” And each one of those momentary hook-ups is decreed to be totally sane & valid by Lady Justice?
And meanwhile, a couple of men who share a mortgage, car payment, two dogs, cooking and cleaning responsibilities, retirement savings and a bed, can’t get any legal recognition for their relationship?
Let me get this straight… It’s perfectly acceptable for some young, big-boobed, peroxide-blonde, teeth-capped, pseudo-talented tart to sink her fake fingernails into an 80-year-old geezer who barely remembers who’s President? And she can push his walker down the aisle with one hand while fondling a bottle of Viagra with the other? Even though the reason she “loves” him has more to do with his bank account than his liver-spotted physique or pre-Alzheimer’s mind? This is considered a hunky-dory marriage?
And meanwhile, a woman who is taking care of her partner who is suffering from breast cancer, and supporting the both of them on her one paycheck, can’t get any legal recognition for her relationship?
Let me get this straight… It’s considered fun and festive to put a show on TV that allows some bored Americans—who have a bag of Doritos in one hand, the remote in the other, and haven’t moved off the sofa since Al Capone’s vault was opened—to vote on what contestants should get married?
And meanwhile, a gay couple, who courted, lived and loved in the secret and privacy of their own home, can’t get any legal recognition for their relationship?
Let me get this straight… It’s perfectly acceptable for over half of the legally married people in America to catch a case of the “wandering eye” and cheat on their spouses? Even though they dipped their wicks where they didn’t belong and broke one of the institution’s cardinal vows, they get to stay legally married? And does it mean that straight folks are incapable of monogamy?
And meanwhile, a gay man who met his lover when they were both based overseas during the Korean War, and has remained faithful ever since, can’t get any legal recognition for his relationship?
Let me get this straight… Straight marriages are working so well that over half of them end in divorce? Does this mean that straight people are incapable of forming lasting relationships? Does it mean that they can’t keep a promise? Does it mean they are fickle when it comes to the realm of love? Or does it simply mean that forming and keeping relationships, no matter who’s involved, is hard work, whether legally sanctioned or not?
And meanwhile, a gay couple can’t even try to have their relationship, warts and all, legally recognized?
Let me get this straight.. The President of the United States wants to spend $1.5 billion (with a “b”) in order to “promote” marriage to heterosexual couples? At a time when our government is running the largest deficit in its history? And when all empirical data clearly shows that programs that try to promote marriage don’t work?
And meanwhile, gay couples are often told it would cost too much for government to legally recognize their relationships?
Let me get this straight… Five states (Hawaii, California, New York, New Jersey and Vermont) have recognized, in some form or other, “domestic partnerships” for gay people? And polls show that most Americans under the age of 30 (the folks who will run this country in a short while) support gay marriage?
And meanwhile, the Ohio legislature is railroading a redundant, anti-gay domestic partnership law through its chambers? Which means that cities, companies and state government agencies that currently recognize gay relationships will have to rescind their family-friendly policies? Thus hurting lots of families in Ohio?
Let me get this straight… Some straight folks think gay people in love are a threat to the “sanctity of marriage?????” Isn’t it the other way around????? Aren’t some straight people threatening gay relationships?
“Physician, heal thyself!!!”
