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| Good times and bum times, I've seen them all and my dear, I'm still here. | | Date Created: Nov 03, 2004, 11:16 AM |
 dedicated to the voters of the State of Michigan:
So last night, Brian and I went to sleep a loving, committed, married couple.
We woke up this morning a loving, committed, married couple.
You can pass your little laws, but nothing has changed. We're still married, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
I'm Presbyterian. So that means that we don't believe marriage is a sacrament. Baptism and communion are, but marriage isn't. It isn't a means to grace. Yet something important happens. We say the words in the liturgy, "What God has joined, let no man separate." We've used those words in the liturgy for years, we say them because we believe they are true. Nothing has changed, we're still married.
Brian and I were married 3 years ago, September 15, 2001 before God and our friends and family. There's not a damn thing you can do about it.
You straight people have burned the sanctity of marriage to the ground and you're dancing on the ashes. Your divorce rate is at 50%. Almost 60% of married men and women admit to marital infidelity. You auction off marriage as a prize on reality TV. And the best you can do is to pass a law to try to protect it? If that's the best you can do, marriage is truly in trouble. That's pathetic. You're pathetic.
I defy you to find one gay couple who woke up this morning and said over their Raisin Bran, "You know...we've been so wrong all this time. Let's break up." I defy you to find one queer person who is interested in finding that special someone who woke up thinking, "Wow...no committed relationships for me." And I defy you to find one straight couple who woke up this morning and said, "Well, I know we just filed for divorce, but now our marriage feels so much stronger." Nothing has changed.
I defy you.
For two hundred years you've denied queer people basic human rights, basic human dignity, denied us the right to marry, to keep our jobs, you stalk us on dark streets, you string us up, and beat us up. And you think this little law means anything? We've been through it all, and my dear, we're still here.
But let's be honest. You were duped. You were played. And you bought it. I mean, no one who isn't either completely stupid or childishly naive could possibly believe that this amendment was about marriage. There's a reason that these laws were put up in Michigan and Ohio, but not New York, California, or Kansas. Kansas is and always has been Republican. There was no question where it was going. New York and California were going to vote for Kerry, no question. So these amendments were simply a game of constitutional smear the queer to get the battle ground states to pony up votes for Bush. You were duped. But it doesn't matter because it won't change anything.
Yeah, I'm angry and sad. Emotionally this vote still hurts. It's another kick in the ribs by some drunk frat boy. But it doesn't change anything.
I'm still married, you fucker. |
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