I’ve been trying to figure out how to best write this entry for days now and I’m still not sure if I’ve gotten it right or not. My entry is about the whole fervor over gays and whether or not they should be allowed to get married.
I think they should. Why not let everyone have the benefit of sharing in either a wonderful union or a freakin’ nightmare?
What disturbs me is the possibility that Congress and W. may make a change to the constitution that outlaws gay marriage or at least “defines” what a marriage should be. If that is allowed to happen, then where does the definition stop? I don’t have any children and I’m married. Am I falling out of bounds of what marriage is? Joining forces and raising kids? If that is part of the definition of marriage then what will the better-half and I do? Break the law? Break up? Get “grandfathered”–like I was in Georgetown in the late 1980s?
I don’t think the gay marriage thing will be solved this year or the next because let’s face it there are still so many states out there that ban sex…well they might as well ban sex since it bans certain acts between consenting adults no matter what gender the adults are in relation to each other. That’s right–don’t do anything other than the missionary position in the state of VA if you are a man and woman and, gasp, married. VA, as a whole, doesn’t protect discrimination based on sexual orientation. In 1997 we enacted a bill to ban same-sex marriage. And, sadly, VA’s hate crime laws don’t include sexual orientation. Hello 1800! Where’s my hoop dress?