Happy Almost Marriage Protection Week--not.

So I just wrote the president and told him I really didn't appreciate him giving a week to people who want to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. It really strikes me as odd that I should have to do this. Sometimes I honestly think we slipped into some bizarro dimension during that bizarro election.

I mean, how can anyone actually convince themselves that there is something so incredibly wrong with two people being married if they are the same sex? I mean really convince themselves that there is some logical basis for this. I don't mean the knee-jerk "I fear the unfamiliar" crowd who are just, "Ew! Strange! Different! Not what I have and therefore wrong!" And not the ones who are part of that crowd but better about hiding it, "I don't think it's so important for them to get married. I take my right to marry the person I love completely for granted but I don't see why the guy next door should care that he doesn't have that right. I'd rather not think about why I feel that way."

But these people who make it a crusade...I guess I'm kidding myself to think they really examine their beliefs. Really, even they basically admit there's nothing immoral about two people of the same sex being married. If they could find something immoral about it they wouldn't have to hang every random crime against morality onto the word gay to make their case: gay relationships are notoriously unstable; they're promiscuous; they're child molestors. Not only are they lies but they beg the question of why these people aren't out protecting marriage against unstable, promiscuous heterosexual child molesters.

There's the religious argument of course, that it's wrong because God says so. In a way that's almost more honest. It says, "No, it's not hurting anybody but it's really squicking God out. And by God I of course mean myself because like anyone I interpret the Bible based on what I feel is right." It's not like people generally find that following the Bible requires going against their ideas of right and wrong. It's not like people read it and say, "Gee, I don't hate X group of people but I guess I'd better start." At least that's my experience in speaking with Christians. Not that that has to do with civil law anyway. A church can refuse marriage rights to a couple based on its own beliefs, it just can't refuse it to everyone based on its own beliefs.

Bleh. Just rambling on MPW weirdness.