Here in Canada, same sex couples are legally allowed to marry "before the eyes of God", however the law leaves some unanswered questions as to whether it's a "marriage" that brings with it all of the usual benefits (tax breaks) afforded by the nation to married couples, or a "union" of two people that simply recognizes their committment to each other, satisfies their desire to join together in holy matrimony, and offers them a piece of paper to place inside their cedar chest - that is if they so "choose" to go the cedar chest route.
Like the same sex marriage debate that is presently going on in the USA, it is nothing more than a stage of the growing pains of change. When we put aside our traditional values and beliefs of what a married couple means or is "supposed" to be, and we look the two people involved directly in the eyes I think we will see, no matter how icky it might seem to some, that these people want to get married for all of the same reasons you and I did. Indeed, America, like any one-nation or one-person will attempt to cling to it's traditions with all it's might, and when you think about it, clinging to our traditions and values is what we all seem to do. Simply put, if you invite someone into your house and they move the furniture around you're going to speak to them about it. "That's not the way we do things around here". But what if it's their house too?
The long held notions by religions and the nation itself that "marriage" means man and woman, and "family" means mom, dad and kids is slowly fading into the future. Even hetrosexual couples do not always have kids, and not all families have a mom and dad either - single mothers raise your hands please. This debate, like it or not, questions our sense of fairness and drags us all into the arena of "human rights" and, again, like it or not, it puts the same question to a nation that once asked itself "are negros human beings" (term used for historical purpose only), and "should women" be allowed to vote and have a say in how this country is run"? For the academics it's a chess match, for others it's a game of checkers, but it still comes down to the same thing: White ruling class against black, male ruling class against female, hetrosexual ruling class against homosexual...but I digress. Time will take care of it all. Cross muh heart and promise!
If I have any problem whatsoever within the debate and discussions that surround gay marriage, it is with the use of the term "sexual orientation". This term has never been defined but rather thrown out there in the midst of the debate both here in Canada and the USA. Once it has been properly and legally defined, I would like to see all the white people, all the men folk, and all the hetrosexuals step back and allow their brothers and sisters pass through. JMO
PS: And BTW, was it my flippant response to the now closed gay marriage thread that put the lock on it? Geez, I hope not. I was just trying to make a point. Anyhoo...Happy Sunday!
Gay Marriage: Yes or No?
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