My 12 year old and i were shooting baskets at the park last night when the temperture had gone down to 100 degrees. He was telling me that earlier, on Twitter, all of the sudden there were like tons of people all excited and like celebrating that Proposition 8 had been repealed.
I asked him if he knew like, what that was all about? he said something about GL&B's wanting to get married. So, i explained, this is going on in California (or Californication, as RWR would call it) and it's not about wanting to get married, nobody wants to get married, people get married to provide and protect their spouses and to have a fun wedding. This is about giving people equal rights.
Right Wing Religion, the biggest opposers of gay marrige, does not like it for the same reason it won't accept evolution as the reason for our existence: it threatens their belief system. That belief system keeps their world in order, supposedly keeps everyone in line, and insures their reward in the afterlife. It is against anything that might undermine bible teaching. Fear seems to be the main ingredient for intolerance.
I tell my kids: do not make assumptions about people, you will often be wrong,
and it leads to discrimination.
Anyway, it's too early for California gays to celebrate, but any excuse for a party, just like Mexicans. They should remember, RWR are a tenacious bunch, they have God on their side.
What i would say to a RWR person about gay marrige is what my mom used to say to me when i refused to try something new, she would ask me: que te quita? Which means: what does it take from you? And she would make a circle with her thumb and forefinger, hold it in front of my face and say: this is how much it takes from you!
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