Oh, this REAKS...

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I just got a pointer to this thanks to one of Kette's friends, who made a comment in her journal about this. Do I oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment? You bet your sweet ass I do. This is a free country, and people who love one another should be allowed to join in a union regardless of their gender/race/religion/whatever. Some up-tight group has decided that this needs to be stopped because it's contributing to the moral decay of America (Yeah, sure... see my earlier rant, Control Your Goddamn Progeny if you want my take on that one), and have proposed an amendment to the Constitution to have it read something along the lines of "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and woman."

Here is where I call bullshit. This needs to stop right here and right now. Please, everyone, even if you don't believe in gay rights, at least see how easily this can lead to laws that trample on personal freedoms and rights that you DO care about, and go to http://www.petitiononline.com/0712t001/petition.html and put your name to this. Slap this down before people start thinking they have the right to define WHO and WHAT you marry -- or worse.

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Re: politics, feh

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Hopefully it'd be judged unconstitutional, yes. That it's even been brought up makes me somewhat doubtful of that, though. The very fact that same-sex marriage is NOT currently allowed quite crushes any good opinion I have of the government's attitude toward this particular freedom in the first place, especially when it ends up equated with pedophilia and other incomparable things that make lawmakers go ick.

Do I think it could pass? You bet your tail. Too many people in politics who think with their religious attitudes and their desire to be re-elected for it not to have a good chance at it, petition or no petition. Just look at the last time same-sex marriage was brought up to be legalized-- it lost. Hopefully next time it won't win, but you never know.