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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

[hexkitten.livejournal.com]

I didn't finish reading that article. I don't know if it's just me, but it seems to dehumanize gay people. It's like the writers think gay folks who want to marry are spoiled and ignorant children who don't really deserve the rights that married straight folks get.

[cozzene.livejournal.com]

but that's just it...a choice. we are spoiled and deprived of proper upbringings and by choosing to act this (read queer, gay, dykish, whatever) way we only deserve some partial 'civil' acknowledgment. It's pathetic and sad how much this reads like something from the Christian Science Monitor or the Catholic Times.