I had a tear roll down my face the other day. I haven't had that happen in at least six years. I'm not going to tell you my sad story of why I can't cry, but of something beautiful that caused that single tear to emerge from my right eye.
I'm a big fan of Current TV. I thank and love my girlfriend Michelle for showing it to me. The channel has some of the best stories of struggles in the US and around the world. Racial, poverty, the good, and the bad, all on one channel.
I flipped on the channel to do my usual watching. An hour long segment of the Gay Rights battle in the US was on. I am a very big supporter in the Gay Rights movement, it was a must to watch. I had never really watched much on TV about the struggle. This was mainly due to the fact I had no idea of this station and it wasn't covered to keep my interest on others.
I watched every minute of each states struggle to get the rights that gay and lesbian couples deserve. I saw the Christians, Muslims, Jews, and every other protester out there with their signs. "God Hates Fags" and everything else. I grew extremely outraged when I saw these. As usual in TV the "Happy part" came to calm the supporters down. It showed many gay and lesbian couples going and getting their marriage licenses in Massachusetts. It was followed by other couples' stories and getting their licenses in the states that failed to pass the gay marriage ban. At the end it added the defeats that Gay Rights had in the last election, but hope for a better tomorrow.
Seeing the look on these couples faces was seriously incredible. If anyone ever doubts that they are in love, and think that attraction between same genders is impractical, you are dead wrong. After all what do we know about love anyway? Love can not be explained in any way shape or form. No book can write the words of love, but you feel it. The idea of gay marriage is not to tarnish the very foundations of marriage, but to have almost all the same rights as married couples. Gay and lesbian couples cannot get out of work if a lover is dying. I find that to be the worst among the rights they don't have. The state wont recognize their love. What devastation that would bring if it ever happened to me. I thought about what it like to have that same scenario play with my girlfriend Michelle and I. That right there was what made me shed a tear.
Now the last time I checked this was a country that had separation of Church and State. The people across the United States fail to realize this. They can't swallow their religious pride long enough to see that this is a constitutional right. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't one of the 10 Commandments "Obey the law of the land?" If this is certainly a constitutional right then why is this happening? They just want rights not the blessing or the tarnishing of any God or gods.
Two more things I'd like to share on this rant:
1) I made a promise to myself a while ago that if gay and lesbian couples cannot have the same rights I can, then I choose not to have them. Once all 50 states have a civil union or gay marriage of some kind, I will consider being married.
2) A friend of mine made fun of this vow I have taken. His exact words were "Why would you want to do that, gay people are pretty much everything bad in the world." I can't tell you how much ignorance and disgustingness is in that sentence. By his God's way all sin is punishable by death. There is no scale of sin you are put on. Your either a sinner or Jesus/God.
Fin.
5 comments:
the separation of church and skate
love you tyler.
Aw puddin',
(Preface: It's late, I'm taking an all-nighter break, and I remembered that you have one of these :])
I remember a few months ago my parents were going on with their usual tirade about how I have to marry to their liking one day. That particular time sticks out to me more than the rest, because my mom said, verbatim, "marriage must be 90% practicality and 10% love for your children" (automatically assuming that married couples have children). Marriage to my family is an act of convenience, comparability, and cash (dowry's still a big part of the tradition back in Kerala. I'm pretty sure I told you about when my cousin Sheba told me that the way my fingers laced meant that I was going to "have an arranged marriage, not a love marriage". That glaring delineation, and her acceptance of it was like something out of a dystopian novel. That wave of thought strips all idealism from marriage, making it something of a transaction. That to me is "unnatural", and an act of injustice to community.
To deny them of recognition, seems to me like asking for nothing more than hush. The fear of those rejecting movement is something, I personally, cannot understand.
It still shocks me that Bolly&holly-wood can still profitably promote marriage as a model for true-love succeeding, when those watching and listening know the reality they face provides no options, and those at the peak of popmedia mountain are the ones using their communica-gines and peoplepower to burn up "legitimite" love into something quick and dirty that hangs over us all.
I don't know where I went from cousins to crude oil, but shoot I've got to get back to Globe stuff.
Love you, miss you, with you on #1,
PS: My brother says Gattaca is a good movie. Relevant. Next weekend!
A+ post
p.s. Fuck all organized religion
i wish there was a like button for this post.
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