gay marriage musings

I thought I had things to say, but my brain refuses to formulate a coherent post. Or even to make a decision what it should be about. Mental impotence, as it were. Happens way too often.:/

Anyway, under the circumstances I'm just going to share a link to an interesting article on gay marriage (which I accidentally found while looking for something else). I like this guy's perspective - even though, personally, I'm sort of alienated from the concept of marriage as such, regardless of sexual orientation of people involved. I just, in a way, don't get why it's so important to anyone at all to be 'married', as opposed to just being together (apart from certain social privileges, which are taken care of by the concept of civil unions, without the need of dragging any religious institutions into it whatsoever). But that's the antisocial in me talking. The humanist in me believes that anyone who feels the need to validate their relationship through a public - be it secular or religious - ceremony should be allowed to do so.:)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-thomas/the-big-gay-chip-on-my-sh_b_208183.html