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geminigirl) wrote2004-02-12 07:29 pm
geminigirl) wrote2004-02-12 07:29 pm
A few moments of substance...
The ick that I've been fighting off for days has finally caught up with me, and so I'm home, and have been all day, and since I've been avoiding posts of substance I think, here's what's been on my mind...
So today, in San Francisco, two women who have been together for 51 years were granted a marriage license. Along with a bunch of other people. And I keep thinking, if there's concern about the stability of same sex relationships (as sometimes is brought out in anti-gay propoganda) why not let let all couples get married? Just because we all know better than to assume that marriage=monogamy, or marriage=stability, and all that doesn't mean that couples desiring the kind of recognition and priveledges which come with marriage should be denied. But if the goal is to promote stable relationships, perhaps that legal recognition (which lets face it, can make undoing a relationship a lot more challenging) is part of the path to the desired outcome.
Anyway, not that I think anyone had any doubts, but I hate the thought of people debating over the civil rights of other people when it comes to something like this.
My peer educators still amaze me. A long conversation with one of them last week about monogamy, Apparently he's recently gotten into a relationship with someone, and they've decided together that it should be monogamous, and he's struggling with it. And I was amazed at his honesty with me about making choices and talking about that.
And another one who has been working hard to convince her (rather conservative) Mom that comprehensive sex education is important, that abstinence only education is ineffective, and is working hard to convince others...she'll be heading to Richmond next week to talk to legislators with us. (More on that in another post...those of you in Virginia, or who know people in Virginia might want to check on that.)
I don't talk much about which candidate I prefer-I was taught as a kid not to do that...that asking about who one was planning to vote for, or who one did vote for was inappropriate. But I will say that the most important thing for me isn't that it's my favorite candidate, but that it's a candidate that can beat Bush in November.
Enough substance. Dinner time.
So today, in San Francisco, two women who have been together for 51 years were granted a marriage license. Along with a bunch of other people. And I keep thinking, if there's concern about the stability of same sex relationships (as sometimes is brought out in anti-gay propoganda) why not let let all couples get married? Just because we all know better than to assume that marriage=monogamy, or marriage=stability, and all that doesn't mean that couples desiring the kind of recognition and priveledges which come with marriage should be denied. But if the goal is to promote stable relationships, perhaps that legal recognition (which lets face it, can make undoing a relationship a lot more challenging) is part of the path to the desired outcome.
Anyway, not that I think anyone had any doubts, but I hate the thought of people debating over the civil rights of other people when it comes to something like this.
My peer educators still amaze me. A long conversation with one of them last week about monogamy, Apparently he's recently gotten into a relationship with someone, and they've decided together that it should be monogamous, and he's struggling with it. And I was amazed at his honesty with me about making choices and talking about that.
And another one who has been working hard to convince her (rather conservative) Mom that comprehensive sex education is important, that abstinence only education is ineffective, and is working hard to convince others...she'll be heading to Richmond next week to talk to legislators with us. (More on that in another post...those of you in Virginia, or who know people in Virginia might want to check on that.)
I don't talk much about which candidate I prefer-I was taught as a kid not to do that...that asking about who one was planning to vote for, or who one did vote for was inappropriate. But I will say that the most important thing for me isn't that it's my favorite candidate, but that it's a candidate that can beat Bush in November.
Enough substance. Dinner time.