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howeirdThis, or words similar to this, has been popping up all over LJ lately:
Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.
It misses the point. Now, I don't happen to agree with the point, but it irks me that people on my side of the fence don't bother to know their enemies. The point is it hurts the institution of marriage. It doesn't harm any individual marriages. I thought about going into gory detail on why, but I frankly don't like these people enough to defend them that thoroughly.
Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.
It misses the point. Now, I don't happen to agree with the point, but it irks me that people on my side of the fence don't bother to know their enemies. The point is it hurts the institution of marriage. It doesn't harm any individual marriages. I thought about going into gory detail on why, but I frankly don't like these people enough to defend them that thoroughly.
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Date: 2008-10-30 02:56 pm (UTC)But you kind of make my point - gay marriage is taught in schools, it is required to be taught because social studies, current events and civics is required to be taught, and gay marriage has an integral role in all those subjects.
I'll bet real cash dollars that you agree with me that the gay pride movement, the history of anti-discrimination laws and gay marriage need to be taught about in our schools. The superintendent of public instruction getting on TV and saying otherwise is Just Plain Stupid™. He should be saying that gay marriage is a fact, not teaching about it would be as wrong as not teaching about evolution.
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Date: 2008-10-31 02:20 am (UTC)The proponents of Prop 8 don't want to not teach about gay marriage in schools. They want to ensure that schools teach about marriage, and teach that gay marriage is evil and wrong and the voters of California said so.
They don't want to acknowledge that the state recognizes marriages that their religion doesn't. It's a head-in-sand thing, though. It's already true, there are already many California marriages that different religious denominations don't recognize (Catholics and divorceés who remarry, for example), but they're invisible; they can be easily ignored. They can teach that all kinds of marriages are wrong, and their students will never realize that married people they know aren't recognized by their church.