Rock the vote.
2003-12-19 at 9:37 a.m.
So have you seen this? The American Family Association has put out a poll whose results it is swearing will be sent to Congress as the official American Public Sentiment on Gay Marriage.The American Family Association is the Pro Family Online Activism Organization. Y'know, who opposes all those who are anti-family. Who the hell is anti-family? Either that, or they're the alternative to the Amateur Family Online Activism Organization, which would be good because I've been getting tired of all the mimeographed fliers with typos and the bake sales supporting America's families. It's important that we start seeing color brochures and PACs.
Anyway, they started this poll, presumably with the intention of showing the America Really Doesn't Want Them Gay Folks Married, and somehow the URL of the poll got out beyond the single-minded. Probably because they had too much faith in the brainwashing powers of their mailing list. Proof that there are some Republicans with open minds, probably. (As if Pine Barrens Debutante weren't proof enough.) So, go vote. One way or the other. Let it truly be an open statement of the opinion of Americans on same-sex marriage, rather than just the opinion of the people the AFA wants to have vote.
I don't get the whole Gay Marriage debate. If the religious arguments should be taken seriously, why aren't they objecting more strenuously to straight-people civil marriages like mine? I didn't get married in a church, with a priest or a rabbi or a pastor, or even with the word "God" in the service--I don't think. I don't really remember. Other than having a judge say "husband and wife", how on earth is our marriage anyone's business? Are Andrew and I destroying the sanctity of marriage? Is it just because he has a penis or I have a vagina that we aren't? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.
For all the fairly traditional trappings of a wedding we ended up with in spite of ourselves, we didn't do much traditional. We wrote our own vows, didn't say "man and wife" (gah!), didn't say God blabbity blah blah. The most marriage-y thing we did was sign a wee piece of paper. We signed a contract with the state of Illinois regarding our union and our responsibilities to each other therein.
Doesn't seem to me any contract with the state should be based on body parts. But that's just my opinion. Go vote your own.
(Although apparently the marriage license used to indicate the male and female names' spaces by "confirmed bachelor" and--or so I'm told--"spinster", respectively. Which kind of cracks me up.)
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