Really, I just feel kinda sick. Not flu sick but throwing up sick. I wonder if it has something to do with the potential high amount of radiation this computer is giving off… or if it’s because I was just typing in a comment on a poll about gay marriage. Nowadays, I tend to stay away from debates like these because it only infuriates me after reading some absolutely ridiculous things people have to say and okay, yeah, I could’ve avoided it this time too, but one of my friends had done this poll thing on Yahoo called “Ask America”; basically there are numerous questions ranging from serious ones like “Should we repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell?” to who-gives-a-crap “Does Sarah Palin’s short messages on twitter affect something something?” (I stopped reading after Sarah Palin and twitter).
Perhaps I am naive in believing the majority of Americans do in fact want same-sex marriage. I guess that’s why I was surprised why only 53% of people supported it while 47% were opposed. And of course, I just had to read the comments, which included one particularly stupid one from one woman (maybe girl, I don’t know) who claimed she had “nothing against gays… only when it comes to relationships”.
Uh… what the fuck? I don’t understand people who say things like that. It’s easier to understand completely moronic Republican right-wingers who are obviously homophobic and therefore don’t want to see gay people married. But it becomes something confusing, at least to me, when someone who claims to have no resentment and ill feelings for gay people to be against their relationship. Who the hell are you to tell them who they can or cannot marry? How can you be so contradictory? Those people I don’t understand.
Anyway, I could’ve just let her idiotic comment speak for itself but then she went on to say, “it goes against my religion”.
Ha! Oh, the old religion argument. Well, of course it does. I’m sure pre-marital sex goes against your religion too but hey, I don’t see you torturing yourself over it. She was obviously unaware at how oppressive women are portrayed in the bible — they get stoned and abused for the most ridiculous things and yet we still don’t believe in that (well, Western culture anyway). We don’t own slaves but that goes against your religion so what about that? If you can pick and choose what you want to believe in and what you apply to your own life, why can’t you do that when it comes to gay, loving relationships? Slavery and oppression — we can’t have any of that, no sir. But two people who love each other? “It goes against my religion”. What a pathetic excuse. The word pathetic doesn’t even begin to describe it.
So I got angry, naturally (like I’m getting angry now, typing it all up again) and I posted a comment with the 200 characters I was limited to, saying the following:
So you don’t have a problem with gay as long as they aren’t in a relationship? Discrimination is a choice; rather than questioning your religion, you ignorantly choose to accept its belief?
I would’ve posted another scathing comment but I decided not to. Instead, I posted on the Yes side for gay marriage (there were columns for comments on both sides) and said, “Thank god I live in Canada.”
And yes. I used a small g. Mm-hmm! *snaps fingers*
Interestingly enough (or not), 54% of people want to legalize marijuana, which, as you can see, is a higher percentage than gay marriage. Pot before love! Wooooot!
Here’s the link to the poll: http://askamerica.yahoo.com/?issue_id=gaymarriagerights&issue_topic=culturemedia
aaron's random musings 
Depending on what poll you look at, it’s not that much better in Canada:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_marz.htm (1996 – 2002)
http://www.religioustolerance.org/homssmpoll06.htm (2006 – more recent)
And slavery and oppression just take different forms now. Instead of overtly oppressing women or having slaves, it becomes more subtle. Women’s gender roles and sexuality (at least in the West) are being manipulated every day for the benefit of business. They are told to be sexy but not slutty, successful but still maternal, independent but tied to a husband/family, etc.
As for slavery…
“Juridically they are both equal; but economically the worker is the serf of the capitalist . . . thereby the worker sells his person and his liberty for a given time. The worker is in the position of a serf because this terrible threat of starvation which daily hangs over his head and over his family, will force him to accept any conditions imposed by the gainful calculations of the capitalist, the industrialist, the employer. . . .The worker always has the right to leave his employer, but has he the means to do so? No, he does it in order to sell himself to another employer. He is driven to it by the same hunger which forces him to sell himself to the first employer. Thus the worker’s liberty . . . is only a theoretical freedom, lacking any means for its possible realisation, and consequently it is only a fictitious liberty, an utter falsehood. The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom — voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory from an economic sense — broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery.” — Mikhail Bakunin
In summary, the West is still fucked up, possibly even more so because the oppression is hidden.
i think that gay marriage should be allowed in certain states but not in other states ‘**
Why? I don’t see why it’s such a big deal.