I’ve had a little more time to write lately so here’s the next political fight. Legislative action to approve or pass a bill to legalize gay marriage in the Empire State. I’m posting the video below to show you basically what the GLBT community is up against in pretty much every state this has been fought in. Here the constituent of a Republican state senator makes very clear statements of fact and leaves all kinds of room for this senator to address at least one of multiple questions and statements which might at least provide an explanation of the way he will vote on the issue when it comes up. It is not at all illogical for a constituent to demand to know their representative’s position on an issue. He provides no argument to support his position and offers no explanation to this constituent as to why he feels it is important to vote against the measure.
I’m awfully tired of this sort of thing. Honestly I don’t really care if you are against gays having legal recognition but I REALLY care that you actually have some sort of argument to support your position. It’s like kid asking a parent why you can’t do something and a parent telling you “BECAUSE I SAID SO”. That might work for 10 year old but it’s a bullshit argument when directed adult to adult. The gay marriage argument badly needs to head in a new direction and I’ve said this on my blog here before, I want to see the religion aspect of the entire debate put to rest. Marriage in this country is not, has not ever been, nor will it EVER be anything other than a CIVIL contract provided by a SECULAR government. What your church or your religion thinks about marriage is entirely irrelevant to the business of our government. You can hoot and holler all you want but it simply is not an argument that you can justifiably take which is why at this point in time the best thing gays have going for them is the federal lawsuit involving DOMA. That’s way more than I’m writing about now but this whole thing is going to get a whole lot uglier in this country before it gets any better and now is the time to figure out what you believe to be true.
From my perspective this is certainly an interesting time to be alive. I’m too young to know much about the civil rights struggles of the 60′s but I’m old enough now to know and understand the parallels that exist. I fully expect to see full equality in my lifetime but I’m not so naive to believe that it will be soon.
