Let's Get Married!

In yet another grim exhibit showcasing America’s intolerant and discriminatory core, our fellow americans from one of our united states, Maine this time, rejected the decision of their elected legislators to legally recognize same-sex marriage. Why is marriage such a hot topic? Why does any one of us care who any one of us marries? Why can’t everyone in America get married? Why can’t we, the federal government, pass equitable legislation, affecting all of our supposed united states? The USA has plenty of laws on ‘the books’ that affect the entire country’s citizenry: taxes/IRS, housing laws/HUD, environmental laws/EPA, and a host of others found @ http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Laws.shtml .

Since the federal government of our democracy steps into so many phases of our lives, why won’t they pass a federal law that declares it ILLEGAL for a states’ government to ratify oppressive, discriminatory legislation? Is this really how our oft-referenced founding fathers intended we rationalize their words? Ya know those guys; they’re the ones who wore wigs and make-up and moved across an ocean to find a life free of oppression!

I grew-up in the late-sixties/seventies, believing that the government, the man, would never have a place of power over my body, what I did with it, nor if I got married. How did my neighbor get control over who I love and marry? What gives anyone that power over my civil rights? Why should I / the public have that level of supremacy over another human being? I thought that kind of rule belonged in the judicial branch only.

All the answers seemingly come from a book that uses the word marriage a lot and has been recently popularized by an increasingly aggressive bunch of really rich theocrats and I’m mad as hell! While they wave their book, their words and actions discriminate, judge, subjugate, tyrannize, demean, insult, fire, don’t hire, constrain, and {insert your own words here} our community! I’m not gonna take it anymore!

When will a citizen of this fine democracy petition their neighbors, creating a state referendum asking to make it ILLEGAL to file for a divorce? Isn’t that really the only guarantee to protect the almighty sanctity of marriage? Divorce is what’s killing ‘marriage’ in America, not people who love each other and want to live that truth in public! Why don’t we fight back by uniting behind OUT-lawing divorce? IMO that single action will force all the bullies back to their pulpits.