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[rm]

I know someone has to be working on the compromise angle. I know that something is better than nothing, but wow, do I resent the New York Times telling me what should be "good enough" for me as a queer person.

I hate the gay marriage debate so much I don't even know where to start. It's just non-stop awful, overshaodws other critical issues for queer people and yet has symbolic primacy in terms of how we are perceived by the broader world. It's a fucking mess.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/opinion/22rauch.html


Meanwhile, I have cold and feel utterly like crap.

Comments

[demotu.livejournal.com]

Yes - especially because it's not exclusively gays or even homosexuals who want same-sex marriage (which is what we referred to it as in Canada - it's really weird to me that the US walks around saying "gay marriage!", but maybe we're just oddly PC.)

[argentla.livejournal.com]

maybe we're just oddly PC

No need to apologize for living in a civilized country. ;P

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

There isn't? Sorry!

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

It's not PC, it's just more accurate, IMHO, since being in same-sex relationship doesn't serve to make me any gayer.

[demotu.livejournal.com]

Precisely.

ETA: But that kind of fluidity in sexuality is probably beyond the comprehension of most of the people speaking loudly against it.