I am very curious why you didn’t respond to the rest of my reply–are you in agreement?

I am very curious why you didn’t respond to the rest of my reply–are you in agreement?

The issue of same-sex marriage was forced upon us by the far right–but then again, it seems that people who are fighting for same-sex marriage appear to be used to having the far right drive the debate, when it should be us who’s forcing the issues that need to be raised. That’s been a major problem–with a lack of clear leadership, those who are organized will speak for us. Personally, I’m sick of people who are for queer rights who just react–instead of act.

So recognizing that, what does that mean? It’s not like we can just pull ourselves out of this issue. It has to be fought to its logical conclusion–whatever that means.

Personally, I find it disconcerting that in the drive for same-sex marriage in California that other more basic rights are not protected for queers. Same-sex marriage is all well and good, but if I can still be fired from my job for having a same-sex partner or looking like the “wrong” gender; if my kids can be harrassed by fellow students and administrators without any sort of state protection because they’re perceived to be queer; if my elders have to hide their orientation or gender presentation in an elder care home for fear of discrimination, then what’s the point?

Personally, I feel that a government-sanctioned couple should be completely independent of marriage. It honestly feels for me that for many conservatives, the issue is one of semantics–while many of them were howling about the use of “gay marriage”, they were also quietly pushing for the strongest civil union partnerships in the US before same-sex marriage happened in Massachusetts.

The issue of same-sex marriage was forced upon us by the far right–but then again, it seems that people who are fighting for same-sex marriage appear to be used to having the far right drive the debate, when it should be us who’s forcing the issues that need to be raised. That’s been a major problem–with a lack of clear leadership, those who are organized will speak for us. Personally, I’m sick of people who are for queer rights who just react–instead of act.

So recognizing that, what does that mean? It’s not like we can just pull ourselves out of this issue. It has to be fought to its logical conclusion–whatever that means.

Personally, I find it disconcerting that in the drive for same-sex marriage in California that other more basic rights are not protected for queers. Same-sex marriage is all well and good, but if I can still be fired from my job for having a same-sex partner or looking like the “wrong” gender; if my kids can be harrassed by fellow students and administrators without any sort of state protection because they’re perceived to be queer; if my elders have to hide their orientation or gender presentation in an elder care home for fear of discrimination, then what’s the point?

Personally, I feel that a government-sanctioned couple should be completely independent of marriage. It honestly feels for me that for many conservatives, the issue is one of semantics–while many of them were howling about the use of “gay marriage”, they were also quietly pushing for the strongest civil union partnerships in the US before same-sex marriage happened in Massachusetts.