gay marriage musings
May. 30th, 2009 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
floatingleafI 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
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
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Date: 2009-05-31 07:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-01 12:34 am (UTC)Then I wanted to gush over some movies I had recently seen... but I thought, well, who really cares? I hardly ever get any responses to my movie posts (unless their LOTR- or Viggo-related). When I skim over my flist, it's all Batman and Star Trek and other Hollywood blockbusters I couldn't care less about if I tried. Who wants to read about an obscure Iranian or Brazilian film that took my breath away with its beauty?... *listens to the deafening silence over the airwaves, lol*
As for getting married - yes, I suppose there is a lot of pressure, but it doesn't apply to gay couples, obviously, so I never had to put up with it.:P Of course, my relatives who don't know anything about me seem very concerned that I find a husband soon - but since I don't keep in touch with them, their concerns don't bother me in the slightest. *evil smirk*