Lurial ([info]lurial) wrote,
@ 2008-05-16 10:30:00
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Woo for California!
The California Supreme Court struck down the ban on same-sex marriage.  I'm insanely happy that even though six of the seven judges were conservatives appointed by Republicans, they made a perfectly logical choice that supports the separation of Church and State.

However, I'm getting more then a little tweaked by the idiots who claim that somehow the allowance of gay marriage will lead to pedophiles trying to marry little kids and people trying to marry their pets.  You need two consenting parties to make a marriage contract and the last time I checked, kids and golden retrievers don't have legal standing in a court of law.  Thus they can't give consent to jack squat.  (How would you even establish if an animal was giving its consent to marriage anyway?)

I also get irritated by people going and on about how marriage is a religious thing between a man and a woman and that God is probably all deeply offended by gay people getting married. 

I'm sorry, but I can list a fuckload of other things God is probably far more deeply offended by then 'Bob and Steve' getting the same marriage rights as a John and Jane.  And if 'marriage' is such a religious word, maybe the government should use an entirely different word in their legal documents because church and state are supposed to be separate anyway.  Instead of marriage, just call it a union.  Everyone, straight or gay, can get 'union' contracts and get the same exact rights.  Then the religious can define the word 'marriage' all they frickin' want.


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