grrrr

[rm]

If I want to marry a man somewhere other than New York (such as say, Massachusetts) and come back to live in New York, I can do that. But if it's a girl, apparently I fucking can't. Is MA really going to start denying marriage licenses to straight couples looking for marry, but not settle, there for whatever reason?

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Gay-Marriage.html

Grrrrr. grrrrr. grrrr.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

What boggles my mind is that people think there's compromise on this issue. Like, either you think gay people are just as moral/human/deserving as straight people, or you don't. This whole "almost" routine actually pisses me off more.

[sethg]

A while ago I floated the hypothesis that straight people support civil unions when their definition of marriage is tied up with their gender identities: "Announcing that I am married to a woman is one way of communicating that I am male, and if that announcement no longer entails that meaning, then it will be harder for me to express my own gender."

I'm not 100% sure that's the right analysis, especially because "civil union" is not always defined as "marriage in all but name". But it does seem consistent with the way the Massachusetts electorate has lost interest in the issue.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It stuns me on a nearly constant basis that people don't have the logic circuits to be embarassed by their astoundingly petty cowardice.

[sethg]

They have the logic circuits. They just have all those logic circuits busy rationalizing their astoundingly petty cowardice.