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Special rights
Oct. 7th, 2005 04:10 pmOkay, you know what really pisses me off?
The conservative argument that revolves around the fact that GLBT folks aren't excluded from marriage, as they can marry any opposite-sex partner they want, just like everyone else.
It makes me so angry I can't even form coherent sentences. What kind of cold-hearted arrogance leads someone to claim that it is not discriminative (is that a word?) to forbid someone from marrying the partner of his/her/hir choice? I suppose it's easy to smugly make such a statement when the current law is on your side. After all, most of the people making the statements have the state-given go-ahead to marry /their/ chosen partners.
It's the arrogance that kills me - the claim that same-sex marriage rights are "special" rights because queers are already allowed to marry - just maybe not the person they'd choose. That just seems so mean-spirited to me that it breaks my heart. Just hearing the words crushes me. How can you even rationally /discuss/ something like that - that it's perfectly okay to let /some/ people marry partners of their choosing and tell other people they can't... but can choose this other person that isn't in their league?
The whole thing makes me want to throw up.
The conservative argument that revolves around the fact that GLBT folks aren't excluded from marriage, as they can marry any opposite-sex partner they want, just like everyone else.
It makes me so angry I can't even form coherent sentences. What kind of cold-hearted arrogance leads someone to claim that it is not discriminative (is that a word?) to forbid someone from marrying the partner of his/her/hir choice? I suppose it's easy to smugly make such a statement when the current law is on your side. After all, most of the people making the statements have the state-given go-ahead to marry /their/ chosen partners.
It's the arrogance that kills me - the claim that same-sex marriage rights are "special" rights because queers are already allowed to marry - just maybe not the person they'd choose. That just seems so mean-spirited to me that it breaks my heart. Just hearing the words crushes me. How can you even rationally /discuss/ something like that - that it's perfectly okay to let /some/ people marry partners of their choosing and tell other people they can't... but can choose this other person that isn't in their league?
The whole thing makes me want to throw up.
