Attention America...
All marriages are civil unions.
No matter what combination of genders gets married, the contract is a civil union, in all 50 states. You get the license and you sign it in front of a judge, a justice of the peace, a member of the clergy, a sea captain, or whoever has been appointed by the government to make the contract official.
Creating a false distinction between "gay marriage" and "civil unions" is a cheap lie that thousands of people believe. No one has perpetrated this lie more than Democrats, who think that if they don't use the "m" word, people will be more accepting of the concept. And in doing so, they are catering to both ignorance and bigotry.
This evening, wanna-be boy Chris Matthews inteviewed Wesley Clark about the subject, and Clark was quick to point out that Americans aren't ready for gay marriage. "They're threatened by it," he said, and then either misspoke, or showed his true colors--I don't know which--by saying "Gay marriage threatens traditional marriage."
Thousands of heterosexual couples get married at City Hall, or at the JP's office. Thousands more get married in a church only because "it loooks nice" or "our parents wanted it" or "it feels right." Many others marry in a church for religious reasons. None of them is more married than any of the rest of them. They are all married because they have entered into a civil union.
Some churches will bless the marriages of gay couples; most won't. If a gay couple wants to be married in a church, that couple can probably find one. But they will be just as married by a "civil union" as they will be by a civil union blessed by a church. It is all marriage.
No matter what combination of genders gets married, the contract is a civil union, in all 50 states. You get the license and you sign it in front of a judge, a justice of the peace, a member of the clergy, a sea captain, or whoever has been appointed by the government to make the contract official.
Creating a false distinction between "gay marriage" and "civil unions" is a cheap lie that thousands of people believe. No one has perpetrated this lie more than Democrats, who think that if they don't use the "m" word, people will be more accepting of the concept. And in doing so, they are catering to both ignorance and bigotry.
This evening, wanna-be boy Chris Matthews inteviewed Wesley Clark about the subject, and Clark was quick to point out that Americans aren't ready for gay marriage. "They're threatened by it," he said, and then either misspoke, or showed his true colors--I don't know which--by saying "Gay marriage threatens traditional marriage."
Thousands of heterosexual couples get married at City Hall, or at the JP's office. Thousands more get married in a church only because "it loooks nice" or "our parents wanted it" or "it feels right." Many others marry in a church for religious reasons. None of them is more married than any of the rest of them. They are all married because they have entered into a civil union.
Some churches will bless the marriages of gay couples; most won't. If a gay couple wants to be married in a church, that couple can probably find one. But they will be just as married by a "civil union" as they will be by a civil union blessed by a church. It is all marriage.
posted by Diane at 6:52 PM
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