Gay marriage! I'm really annoyed with Clinton for signing the DoMA (the "Defense" of Marriage Act, which states that "for the preservation of the family" a gay marriage made legal in one state does not have to be recognized by any other state), especially when you consider how supportive Clinton was to us queers during the time he was trying to get everyone to vote for him to be President. Some people act so surprised that Clinton lied about Monica Lewinsky, but gays have known that Clinton was a liar ever since he signed the DoMA, and even before then when he advocated the absolutely waffle-like "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Anyway, getting back on subject, people have argued that if gay marriages are legalized, then people will want intergenerational marriages and marriages of incest legalized as well. But this "domino theory" has no merit in that it's the proverbial comparison between apples and oranges. Intergenerational marriages (pedophilia) will NEVER be legalized since the younger of the pair is a minor and is not mentally mature enough, nor would he or she even be mature physically. (I may also remind people that there are places where hetero marriages before age eighteen are legal but no one seems to complain about THAT.) Marriages of incest will NEVER be legalized since biological/genetic problems WILL occur when offspring results from an incestuous pairing. Incestuous and pedophilic marriages are VERY different from gay marriage, and anyone who can't see that is a yutz. :P

If I had a partner later on in life and gay marriages still weren't legal, I could not visit my partner in the hospital if he got in an accident. If he died, he couldn't entrust his estate to me. We may live as a happily married couple for fifty years but we wouldn't have tax benefits, insurance benefits, and the like just cause we aren't hetero and we aren't able to get a marriage license even if we were able to shell out the fourteen bucks required to get one. There are so many loveless hetero marriages, yet the government refuses to acknowledge loving gay marriages? Wonderful.

Oh yes, I don't want to hear any religious (usually Christian) arguments against gay marriage either. There is SUPPOSED to be a separation of church and state in our country, and since all arguments I've heard against gay marriages have been religion-based or religion-motivated, there shouldn't be a law against gay marriages in our country, where a person can be affiliated with any religion known to the human race, or none at all. Some people have argued that this country was founded by Christian people who had Christian beliefs, and so gay marriages should not be legalized, but my answer to that is our country was also founded by sexist people who also claimed to be enlightened men yet kept tons of black slaves... So exactly how does one pick and choose which of the founding fathers' beliefs we want to emulate as a society of thinking, educated humans approaching the twenty-first century in a country where church and state are separate?

To digress a bit, people accuse homosexuals of making a big deal out of our sexuality (saying that we "flaunt" it) and clamoring for special rights. Excuse me? We want the right to visit our lifemates in the hospital, the ability to hold hands in public without the fear of physical abuse, and WE'RE flaunting our sexuality? Heterosexuals get almost completely naked all the time in every soap opera and cheap rated R movie, and homosexuals are the ones flaunting it because we want our marriages to be legal realities and we want to be safe in the streets? Puh-LEAZE. ;)

It's one of my biggest pet peeves... you know, when people say, "I don't mind if you're gay, but I don't think kids should watch TV programs with gay couples in them cause that's not right for little kids to see." Oh, of course, they think it's okay for people to be gay, but they won't let a kid see two guys holding hands on TV just like they won't let a kid watch hetero porno or some gory violent movie - in other words, they're trying to say that being gay is okay but *not okay enough* for "susceptible little children" to see because it's just as bad as porno or gore.

And then still other people say, "I don't mind if you're gay, but why do you have to talk about it all the time? Why do you have to tell everyone about it? Why is it so important? *Why do you have to be in everyone's face and be so obvious?*"

What people don't realize is the blatant hypocrisy in what they're saying when they spout out crap like that. Instead of complaining about the hetero teenagers who French kiss on inane "family" rated-G sitcoms or the hetero couples naked in bed in some trashy daytime soap opera, people waste their time complaining about how Ellen DeGeneres "flaunts her sexuality" just because she actually admitted on TV that she was a lesbian... even though she never got naked or French kissed another woman like in a good ol' family sitcom or soap opera. :P In my opinion, hypocrisy and double standards are worse than run-of-the-mill bigotry. :P

This all relates to the whole "don't ask, don't tell" thing, which was basically a lame attempt by Clinton to reconcile the continued ban on gays in the military. The "don't ask, don't tell" thing boiled down to the following: don't let anyone in the military find out you're gay, and you can be in the military cause the military won't ask about it either. In other words, out of sight, out of mind. Act straight and everything will be just fine!

Oh yeah, by the way, J.C. Penney's, Wendy's, and Chrysler all boycotted Ellen's show after her "coming out" episode... I wasn't surprised about Chrysler and J.C. Penney's cause they both suck anyways, but I was surprised about Wendy's... Dave Thomas always seems so nice in all the Wendy's commercials. :P