Gay Marriage Legal Nationwide

The downside is I'll have to step away from the internet before my brain explodes from the general masses, their opinions, and their flawed reasoning left and right. Because this is the flavour of the month today, I've already seen 4 "proofs" that children of homosexual parentage wind up better than heterosexual-raised children for one reason or another, and 4 "rebuttals" that were equally asinine...and I really haven't been online very long.

I've already deactivated facebook, in fact. I'll try again in a month when the heat dies down.

 

Even though I'm a Christian, I don't think God judges anyone. He probably won't judge homosexuals or transgenders either, it's probably someone who wrote the first Bible that made it seem that way! My mom really opposes my opinions, and she said that it is a terrible thing that's happening these days... She says bigot crap along the lines of, "This is the end of the world as we know it..." and, "They are changing the U.S. in a bad way." I think she's prejudicing against these poor folks trying to just be happy! :'(

 

Come to Canada - it's cold and we've had legal gay marriage since 2005, and universal health care since 1966.

 

Srsly? Thankfully I've yet to see something like that. How incredibly stupid.

I'm quite there with you on that apathy bit.

As for my personal views, I'm here wondering if now that this has happened if people would just stop talking about it. 100% honest here, I do not support or oppose gay marriage. Aside from benefits people get from being married, I don't see why people want to get married (Gay or straight).

Sure, I would like to get married to somebody and share my life with them. But if I were not allowed to marry them, as long as I could stay with them and basically live what is considered a married life without anything official, I would be totally fine with that.

 

We have the shitty equivalent called EB Games, apparently you guys used to have it before Gamestop.

Anyway on topic.

Yes, this was very long overdue. Yes, the backlash I've been seeing around the internet is stupid. The Church/Religion shouldn't have, and in most cases hasn't had, any sort of influential power within the government whatsoever, so boo on those who keep saying that it breaks tradition. Religion should be a family tradition, not a national tradition. Times change, blah blah blah you get the point I'm making.

 

I highly disagree with the notion that apathy is something to strive for, because not everyone knows what is good for themselves, nor do you know what truly affects you.

The only way I could truly see that mentality working, is if we could go on living in small tribes and have that in-group out-group mentality - what the other guy and his tribe do is none of my business. But unfortunately, we live in a world where the average person sees upwards of 200 advertisements in a given day (in one form or another). This is willingly or unwillingly exposing yourself to someone else's agenda, which is a problem.

We are more connected than we've ever been, and everyone has the right, and even obligation, to strive to avoid ignorance. Just because something doesn't appear to affect you, doesn't mean it is unimportant, and if the entire world had that same attitude at the same time, we'd be in deep trouble.

 

Old Me: OMG! WHY WHY WHY?!!!

Current Me: Meh. *Drinks Hibiscus Tea* Let's see how this is going. Gimme some Apple Fritters.

Some people I know are "unfriending' and stop being friends with each other on Facebook over this. Some people have the rainbow colors on their profile pic and the others have the red-love cross on theirs. As for me, I am a Christian and so my convictions are where I stand spiritually, mentally and emotionally. If they make gay marriage legal, ok. Nothing shocking. Still going to talk to people who are gay regardless. I am more along the lines of DW's last paragraph.

 

What about for the things that truly do not effect you? Would it still be wrong to be apathetic about it? You can't tell me that the day-to-day actions of somebody like Miley Cyrus or any other famous celebrity has any influence in my life. I mean sure, there are always possible actions like they are responsible for the drunken homicide of myself or somebody I know, but since that hasn't happened yet I can say that whatever they do has had absolutely no effect on my life so far.

 

Then this is not apathy, you have a particular worldview that you're adhering to. You're saying you adhere to a "mind your own business" viewpoint, this is vastly different from apathy as you're actually picking a side which you feel makes more sense.

The problem is, some people who say precisely the same thing, hide behind a curtain of apathy to just be like "whatever, I can't do anything about anything. I'm just one person, and it really doesn't matter what I think" and the status quo never changes.

No, it's not wrong to ignore stupid things like that. Human rights discussions however, you probably should care slightly about, one way or the other... so it's kind of a moot point.

 

So she's not issuing them to straight people either? Or just not issuing them to gay couples?

Indeed. Though going back towards my comment of me seeing marriage being less and less of an important thing these days. If a couple is able to get the same benefits that married people are able to get, then at that point marriage simply becomes nothing more than a title. Which in that case wouldn't fall in human rights discussions. I know nobody sees it this way, but I dunno. I can't think of proper words to put in whatever it is I'm thinking, so I'm certain this paragraph comes out a lot more hateful sounding than I intend it to be.