Your Asshat of the Week: Stand for Marriage Maine

Too bad that doesn't happen in real life.

Seriously though, Stand for Marriage Maine deserves the win too.

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I may be straight, but I'm not narrow.

Many straight people have delusions and misconceptions about gay people: "they live to party," "they don't have serious relationships," "their goal is to have sex with as many partners as possible," and so on, and so forth. Little do they know, gay people are as different as all the other people, and some of them (or should I say "some of us") do actually want to get married, even when some straight "comedians" try to joke about it saying, "Why would you want to tie yourselves to someone else? Don't you see that you're lucky, 'cause you have an excuse not to get married?!"

So, really, what is it about having the right to get married in our society? I'll tell you: it's about being recognized by this society. And this is what we have to fight for every day — the very recognition of our existence and acceptance of us as we are. Couples don't really need some piece of paper (marriage license) to feel more connected and more committed — if two people really love each other, everything else just does not matter. Benefits? Well, there are domestic partnerships that actually give us some rights and some feeling of a committed relationship, and maybe in the future it would be possible to have all the necessary rights in place. The only thing that is left is recognition of equality. It's that simple!

Let's have a closer look at those posters from Maine & Washington campaigns! They all say: "Protect Marriage." Protect from what exactly? From the reasonable & logically justified change that has to be done to restore equality and simple human rights that have been being abused for millenia? Or "Preserve Marriage." What for? What is this "sacred" reason we should be preserving something for? Something that is demeaning the minorities by refusal for equal recognition! Let's face it: marriage as we know it now (with special clause about being of opposite sex) is as insulting & as obsolete as... um... slavery, which, by the way, was okeyed in the precious Bible. But do we call for return of slavery (just 'cause it's OK, according to Bible), or we make it right and give people freedom & equality? The answer is obvious! How is this different from giving people of the same sex the right to get married? I don't see it! Probably, because I was blinded by Santa... no, wait... Satan... that's right.

The only thing these people are trying to protect is themselves, their own place in the society, their supremacy! The real agenda of the so-called "protection of marriage" is establishing inequality, making themselves the supreme creatures who have something that gay people just can't have. This is a discrimination in disguise! It's disguised under something that every sane human being would want to protect — their own family ("marriage" = "family" in our minds). We love our families! We want to protect them! And when we are being told that our families are in danger, we're ready to do just about anything to make them safe. And we don't even realize that we are being manipulated into thinking that there is some kind of danger, whereas there isn't! The only danger there is is the danger of becoming a nation of brainless "okeyers" for those who make decisions affecting our lives! That's why they need our "okey" — they decide for us! But do they really? And are we really those brainless "okeyers" who can easily be manipulated and who can fall for the trick that makes them believe they actually save their families from some made-up danger? That's what you have to decide! On your own! Don't let anyone fool you with smoke & mirrors! Stand up for yourself! Speak for yourself! Think for yourself! Decide for yourself! While you still can.