Gay Marriage–Everyone is Wrong!

Ok, first and foremost, I’m failing to see why this entire nation is being blinded by stupidity on this issue.  We have religious folk screaming that allowing homosexuals to marry is an “attack on the church” or “attack on <insert religion of choice here>”.  So for you folks I say shut up.  I know people like this.  They are intelligent, well spoken, logical people.  So why can’t they see past this BS?

Now, for your gay people out there screaming about this being a matter of the state granting you equal rights.  Also, shut up.  States do NOT “grant” rights.  You HAVE rights.  States can attempt to put together legislation that recognizes those rights.  States can ignore your rights and not bother to codify it.  More likely, though, States put forth laws to try to limit your rights.  You don’t need the state to “give” you your “rights”.  Beyond that, marriage is not a “right”.  Freedom is a right.  If you’re free, you marry who you damned well please, whether the state has any laws for it or not.

On to the problem.  Everyone is tied up over whether or not gay people should be allowed to marry.  Like it’s any of your business what someone else does, or is allowed to do.  But the hell out your egomaniacal busy-bodies!  Unless they’re marrying you, it’s not your business.  The problem is that States and the Federal Government seem to think they have anything to say about marriage at all, whether it be hetero or homo or something as yet undefined.  It is not their business.  It is yours.

States started licensing marriage as a means of control.  Too many people were interested in interracial marriages, and that just couldn’t be allowed!  So the states made licensing requirements.  If you wanted to be married, you had to apply for a license to do so.  Coming up on almost a century of this crap now, and instead of telling people they can’t marry outside of their race, now the state is telling people they have to marry the opposite sex.  Oppression is oppression, regardless of the justification you find in religious texts or the basis of that oppression. 

Legally defined marriage is a tool for behavior modification, control, and oppression by the State.  Period.  The problems isn’t HOW the state defines marriage, the problem is that the State defines marriage at all.