Gay Marriage Still Outlawed in Washington

Posted on | July 26, 2006 | No Comments

Okay, so it looks like the general belief that same-sex marriages in Washington should not be allowed is primarily for the sake of the children. Or, more accurately, because the gays can’t have children. So, I would like to put to a vote the legality of all marriages in which the couples can not, or do not, procreate. Let me list a few:

Elderly couples (to include post menopausal women who don’t necessarily fall under the “elderly” category)
Couples who choose not to have children
Impotent men
Post-operative transgendered people
Barren women
Couples in which one partner is physically not available (military duty, prison, etc.)
Women who have had hysterectomies
Men who have had vasectomies
Men with too low of a sperm count
Women who have had X number of miscarriages or still-borns (number to be determined later)

I suppose I could go on and on.

What is with all this fucking concern about how gay marriage will effect kids? Why is Washington being so God damned hypocritical? They aren’t even looking at their own arguments from a logical stand-point. There is no logic behind their arguments.

Children do better with a father and a mother present – Okay, perhaps they do. So, should we outlaw divorce? Should we outlaw premarital sex? I believe I’ve made these arguments before.

Sons need a father and daughters need a mother – I was raised by my mom. Now, since I ended up being gay I probably can’t use me as an argument quite as well as, say, someone else who grew up in a single-parent home, but I don’t know of anyone else. I can say this much: I didn’t need a father around to tell me how to be a boy. I didn’t need a father around to teach me how to be masculine. Although I was missing a father I still had other males in the family that I could learn from. However, I must state that I don’t believe that being masculine is all that important for a boy, nor is being feminine important for a girl. These are simply societal norms. What I learned from the males in my family was how to be macho. Not just masculine, but totally macho. I find macho behavior disconcerting.

Now, to add to that: Had I been raised by my father, which is what many apparently would have preferred, I would have been one fucked up guy. My father has spent many years in prison for various things like theft, rape, assault, etc. Now, certainly I’m no saint, but I could have been far worse had my father had any influence on my life.

Personally, I believe many gay and lesbian people have a touch of both genders in them. Not anatomically, of course, but mentally and/or emotionally. Many of us tend to embrace both our masculine side and our feminine side. There are, of course, exceptions… but we won’t go into drag queens.

Anyways, I’m tired of this. Absolutely tired of this. And it’s not just the lack of rights but it’s the stupidity. I feel the same frustration that I used to feel when I had to take technical support calls and that one person who calls in, irate as all fuck, bitching about some problem with their service or software. A problem that they caused themselves. And no amount of explaining to them that they caused their own fucking problem and that they will not get a refund will work. “Yes, sir, your cable is working. It has been working. You just didn’t plug your TV in. Had you plugged it in, you would have been able to watch your shows. You didn’t. And, no, we aren’t refunding your money for that.”

Idiots frustrate me. People with no ability to see logic piss me off. People who have too much pride to admit when they are wrong annoy the fuck out of me!

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