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Redefining
Marriage To Only Suit YOUR Needs is Both Repugnant and Bigoted
Anyone
who reads this blog knows that I am not for gay marriage because
of the bigotry that redefining the term "marriage"
engenders.
"How
can it be bigotry if you allow two men or two women to marry
just like two straight people," you ask?
Well,
when you preface the need to change the term based on the fact
that gays are people too and they form relationships that are
just as valuable as straights, you presuppose that only human
relationships of two people are worth shit and that any other
consenting adult bonds are just not worth consideration as well.
It
is this BIGOTRY and SELFISHNESS of gay marriage advocates that
pisses me off!
Where
do you jerks get off thinking that only your form of marriage is
appropriate and that you get to decide to EXCLUDE others
but you get your way and only your way matters!
As a
libertarian, I fully support allowing any and all consenting
adult relationships to be sanctioned, recognized, and protected
under the law. So if three guys or two guys and a
chick want to form a life partnership, I am fully supportive of
that.
But
I reject with the greatest contempt and disrespect this pathetic
gay marriage notion that if you oppose this redefinition, you
are a bad person or that you should not support any cause that
goes against it.
It
has come to a point in this country that we have weak and
spineless assholes who only want their way and that want others
to pay a price for having their
opinions!
Again,
as a Libertarian, I want the greatest freedoms for all - I want
alternative opinions to be freely expressed without fear of
pressure groups forcing people to give up anything for holding
those beliefs or supporting causes they believe in.
I
firmly believe the problem we created by having Government
involved in "marriage" is the root cause of the
situations we have now. Marriage should have been
only what religion says it is and that any Government recognized
human bonding should have been named something else - making
marriage separate because it is a religious institution (odd
leftists want to blur religion and government when it works to
their favor!). So
let's have something that are civil unions - and then allow any
adult bonding to be recognized with survivorship, benefits,
legal protection of property rights, and a specified way to
dissolve relationships of any plurality. It
seems illogical that those who have spent the better part of a
century bitching and moaning about societal norms should try to
force their will on society just as those fools decried society
doing it to them - but I've learned that there is no interest in
EQUALITY with the modern gay rights movement - most of the most
vocal gay rights agitators are hellbent to make America and
society to pay for perceived persecution - and I am not going to
say there was NO PERSECUTION, but you don't resolve past ills by
using the same bigotry to force your will on society overall. I
would contend that America right now is ready to allow gays and
other adult bonding to go forward and this would make no one
have to pay any price. I bet with intelligent
persuasion, the gay community could get straight people to see
that marriage is only a religious institution and that the
overall resolution is a separate civil recognition - and that
would not step on anyone's toes. So
let's agree - advocate for civil unions for everyone who wants
their union recognized and push marriage back to the churches
where it belongs. Those who believe in
marriages can get their ceremonies held in the church of their
choice and then have that bond recognized also as a civil
union. There
is no redefining of marriage just to suit your bigotry - take
your hands off the term and stop bastardizing it.
You have no right to it and you have no right to punish society
because you want to get your way and others don't support
you.
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Mozilla Chief Executive
Dared To Support What He Believes in and Pays With His Job
Yahoo
News - Mozilla Chief Executive Brendan Eich has stepped down, the company said on Thursday, after an online dating service urged a boycott of the company's web browser because of a donation Eich made to opponents of gay marriage.
The software company came under fire for appointing Eich as CEO last month. In 2008, he gave money to oppose the legalization of gay marriage in California, a hot-button issue especially at a company that boasts about its policy of inclusiveness and diversity.
"We didn't act like you'd expect Mozilla to act," wrote Mozilla Executive Chairwoman Mitchell Baker in a blog post. "We didn't move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We're sorry."
The next step for Mozilla's leadership "is still being discussed," she added, with more information to come next week.
While gay activists applauded the move, many in the technology community lamented the departure of
Eich, who invented the programming language Javascript and co-founded Mozilla.
"Brendan Eich is a good friend of 20 years, and has made a profound contribution to the Web and to the entire world," venture capitalist Marc Andreessen tweeted.
Eich donated $1,000 in 2008 in support of California's Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in the state until it was struck down by the Supreme Court in June.
His resignation came days after OkCupid.com, the popular online dating site, called for a boycott of Mozilla Firefox to protest the world's No. 2 Web browser naming a gay marriage opponent as chief executive.
On Monday, OkCupid sent a message to visitors who accessed the website through Firefox, suggesting they use browsers such as Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer or Google Inc's Chrome.
"Mozilla's new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples," the message said. "We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access
OkCupid."
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Civil unions do not carry the same rights as marriage, which is a legal distinction, not merely a religious one. Same sex marriage was legal in California, and the Mozilla CEO spent his money stripping gays of the civil right to enjoy a civil right that heterosexuals take for granted. A boycott is free speech in action. Not censorship. He attacked gays, and shouldn't expect them (us) to bend over and take it. He might have attacked Jews, or inter-racial marriage. He didn't. He targeted gays, and spent money trying to eliminate our right to marry in the state I live in. So there was a tiny boycott by one website with the strength of character in support of gay people. It's called consequences. Free speech is great, but it comes with consequences. I don't eat at Chick Fil-A, and I wouldn't have used Mozilla. Their CEO launched an assault on gay people. Sayonara.
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