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klsiegel320Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.
Seriously - go do it. Get your friends to do it. The bigots can all go to the nasty warm place, for all I care. They'll have plenty of good company.
Hate is hate. The people who think their marriages are endangered by someone else's love, that happens to be different from theirs, have no clue what love is and wouldn't know it if it bit them squarely on a very tender place.
The only thing worse is the idea that legislating hate is somehow American. It isn't. It follows in the footsteps of wonderful examples in history - like those we fought against in WWII, for example, who were happy to legislate hatefulness and murder into law. Do we really want to start down that slippery slope?
We do not. We are Americans. Our ancestors came here to escape repression, to be allowed to worship God as they wanted, not as a King or other ruler dictated. We do not legislate away other people's right to believe and worship and love and live as they see fit, simply because they are different from us. And anybody who says different is no true American, and no true patriot.
Seriously - go do it. Get your friends to do it. The bigots can all go to the nasty warm place, for all I care. They'll have plenty of good company.
Hate is hate. The people who think their marriages are endangered by someone else's love, that happens to be different from theirs, have no clue what love is and wouldn't know it if it bit them squarely on a very tender place.
The only thing worse is the idea that legislating hate is somehow American. It isn't. It follows in the footsteps of wonderful examples in history - like those we fought against in WWII, for example, who were happy to legislate hatefulness and murder into law. Do we really want to start down that slippery slope?
We do not. We are Americans. Our ancestors came here to escape repression, to be allowed to worship God as they wanted, not as a King or other ruler dictated. We do not legislate away other people's right to believe and worship and love and live as they see fit, simply because they are different from us. And anybody who says different is no true American, and no true patriot.
