Hey readers!!!
Happy 3 year anniversary for same sex marriage in Mass. While I was waiting for an hour in the dentist chair for the dentist that never showed up today, I watched a show called Wired. The host had a couple who wrote a book called Courting Equality. I would love to read it. Basically it chronicles the history of homosexual rights to include same sex marriage in the state of Massachusetts. It sounds pretty interesting regardless of which side of the fence you are on, I believe this book to be quite enlightening.
Although I must ask, why is a word so important? When it comes down to it, words are absolutely meaningless until they become a symbol, icon, and/or idea. Then and only then is when a word becomes everything. It becomes a cause. It becomes a reason. It earns the right to be defended. Today's word is Marriage. There are many different definitions of marriage. I chose the most basic for tonight's entry: social joining of two people; a union. Many people will throw in that marriage is the union between a man and a woman per the holy bible. Others will say it is a civil union between two adults. The key word is Union. So why does it matter if the people uniting are of the same sex? 40 years ago, interracial couple were an abomination. So people like me were sneered at a called mongrels and heathens. So, we trade one type of bigotry for another? Because that's what we want to display to others. How we can pick on whatever group in our society is not favored by the majority. Bible thumpers will say it is immoral. Closed-minded individuals will say it isn't right because there can be no natural reproduction of offspring. Why does it matter what someone else is doing with there lives? When did humans get on the extinction list? Are we so endanger of going the way of the do-do? Come on. Stop being nosy is what it comes down to. Who gets an abortion, who gets married, who has children, how someone lives is none of our business. Let people live their lives how ever they choose. Judgement will come to everyone. It is inescapable. Deal. Maybe we can refocus our attention on world peace, teaching kids how to read, ending world hunger, curing cancer, and fixing the nation's deficit. Those are worthy causes to protest and vote on.
I really hate to say it, but that is what I hated most about coming back to America from Europe. Americans never have their heads in the game. Sorry. We are so concerned about forcing others to be morally correct, we forget that we are just as morally bankrupt. You cannot force a horse to drink water. You cannot make everyone march to the beat of your drum. That's called dictatorship. Not democracy. Get of your fucking pedestal America. We have a lot of inner reflecting to do. And just to clear the air, it was a farce that settlers came here for religious freedom. Well, they did, but only after freedom to prosper financially and build a society with out a monarch so that the people could govern themselves. Then the whole religious freedom thing. And the other reason the country was founded only on Christian beliefs was because at that time it was punishable by death to be anything but Christian. Not saying that Christians and Christianity is bad, but there is no need to be high and mighty when you cannot accept others. The basic rule of the religion is teach and convert by living a clean and honorable life. Not beat (verbally or physically) into submission.
So people let's keep it in mind. One day in the near future, you too could fall into the minority, and have an entire country at war over your existence.
Let's make the word for tomorrow: Coexist. That's what life is all about. Without others, the world is a boring and lonely place.
Good night!
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. Albert Einstein
Yokai
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