There’s currently an amendment being proposed in Minnesota that wants to limit marriage to a union between men and women only. I decided to watch a video which the Minnesota for Marriage group posted on YouTube to see what their message was.
The gist of the message is that Marriage is about sex and having children.
Um. No. Marriage has nothing to do with children, or sex.
I had an aunt and uncle who had no kids, by choice, and they were happily married until death did them part. I have another aunt and uncle who had no kids of their own due to medical complications, adopted instead, and are still happily married several decades on. In neither case was having children of their own a direct concern to the lasting health of their marriage.
In contrast, my parents stayed together for me, their only child, because they thought it was beneficial. On the contrary, they were so unhappy with their marriage that it ruined many aspects of my childhood, and their own lives.
Marriage is about love. Without that, marriage is merely a contract, and an easily broken one at that.
What bothers me the most is that those who oppose same sex marriage intertwine, in a weird way, the aspects of marriage, sex, and children, as if they’re all the same thing. You can have a marriage without sex. You can have kids without a marriage. You can have sex without kids. And you can have kids without sex, too. All of these things are separate from each other.
These same misguided and willfully ignorant people compound their opposition of marriage with their morality and personal faiths.
Religion, Morals, Marriage, Sex, and Children. These are all different things. By attempting to define any of these as inseparable from one another you’re polluting your logic. Certainly you can understand these aspects of life by their relation to one another, but in no way should you conflate them together in some unholy orgy of misconstruction. You’re doing yourself and the entire human race a disservice with your ignorance.
Please, understand that marriage is about love. It has nothing to do with children, religion, morals, or even sex or gender. It has everything to do with freedom and happiness.
After reading this I’ve come to realize that politicians are pawns. Perhaps not all, but certainly enough of them are to make egregious internet censorship a true problem.
The thing I love most about the internet is that it’s real life. It’s the entire human psyche laid bare in the grossest way it ever could be. I’m hopeful that freedom will be victorious, as it has been several times throughout history, but I know that it’s going to be hard fought.
