Gay Marriage Political Cartoons
June 25, 2011
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Sally and Michael, (since you used different names but have the same IP address… I will reply to ‘both’ of you at the same time)
First, I do not have to be open to bigoted ideas, nor should anyone. To make a statement such as you do then also means we would need to be open to those who opposed interracial marriage decades ago. No! That is not the way society functions, or how the human spirit should react in the face of bigotry.
Your view of polling data as it relates to same sex marriage is seriously flawed. More and more polling data, from objective firms and organizations, show not only growing support for gay marriage, but MAJORITY support. You are not up to date on polling data when it comes to this civil rights fight.
You mention the word ‘tradition’ and I am mindful that women were once not allowed to talk politics in front of men, nor own their own bank account without a husband co-signing, nor hold public office. Tradition is an argument that it is best for you not to use when it comes to gay marriage.
Finally I will not leave you with the word ‘marriage’, and only allow heterosexual couples to have that term apply to them. There are two reasons for this. One is social, and the other is legal.
Putting gay relationships in some other category than marriage be it civil unions, or domestic partnerships, by their very euphemism, by their very separateness build a wall between gay people and others in society that are also bonded. With this difference in name bigots would be able to again put back the barrier many of us have spent a lifetime trying to remove.
Then there is the legal aspect, of which I have written about on my blog.
Timothy Zimmer, a computer programmer who works in Newark for a Massachusetts company he declined to name, said his insurance company, United Healthcare, had told him that his partner would not be covered even if they got a civil union.
“First, the NJ civil union is not deemed to be a marriage under NJ law,” the insurer wrote in an e-mail message to him. “Therefore there is no ‘spouse’ as defined in the MA plan. The MA law recognizes marriages between members of the same sex only for marriages performed in MA between MA residents. Since the NJ members are not ‘married’ under either NJ or MA law, there is no ‘spouse’ eligible for coverage as a dependent.”
Mr. Zimmer, 52, said in an interview last week, “Apparently the civil union law gave us all the rights of marriage, except the ones we really need.”
Some may call this ‘almost marriage’ but history is my guide, and proves ’separate but equal’ is a wrong policy.
The fact that marriage and all the rights that follow cannot be replicated by any other social contract, including civil unions, is just another reason I have problems with anything other than full out marriage.
When we say the word marriage we all know what it means both in tangible and intangible ways. There is no way to shortcut the path to justice.
You will just need to cope with progess and accept that soceity is moving towards gay marriage. There is really nothing you can do to stop it.