2003-05-30 
 

racing for equality

Sitting at my desk and I can barely keep my eyes open, extra large coffee did nothing for me this morning.

Amazing Race was on last night. Go Reichen and Chip! (Gotta root for the gay married couple of course.) Marriage may be an old hetero tradition that gay folks should be above and beyond, but until they take the legal rights away from the straights and develop a truly equitable, non-religious based system of couple recognition, I'm standing up for gay marriage. G and I are more committed to each other than some of the hetero married couples we know, yet should one of us get sick (or worse) we have no rights that allow us to make decisions for each other without going through complicated legalwork. (And that's just one of the most obvious discrepencies.) I'm not saying I want to stand up in anyone's church and thumb my nose at their personal beliefs as I declare my love for him. We don't need a fancy building and an elebortate ceremony to know we've decided to be together. I just want the government - which has supposedly seperated church and state - to recognize our couplehood as deserving of the same respect and legal recognition as a union between our straight counterparts.

Wow, that got me all riled up and now I'm AWAKE!

Edited: The fact that Chip and Reichen are no more doesn't stand in the way of the fact that G and I still are and still are lacking the rights to the same simple privledges hets enjoy in 49 states.

Labels: dose of mikey, linkage, random review, rant

* posted by me at 2:55 PM

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