A new poll shows that 55% of Americans support gay marriage. For those under the age of 30, that number is 78%.
Conservatives who scream that the courts are going against “the will of the people” are ignoring facts (as usual; they also ignore the fact that a majority of Americans support Obamacare, think abortion and marijuana should be legal, want more gun control, support raising taxes on the wealthy, raising the minimum wage, doing something about campaign finance reform, and do not believe that “corporations are people.” But that’s another topic…)
Anyway, the local federal court struck down Pennsylvania’s anti-gay marriage law yesterday, allowing us here to finally join the rest of the northeast in advancing into the 21st century, away from the prejudices of the past. 
Speaking of which, a friend of mine recently objected to being labeled as “prejudiced” for not supporting gay marriage, and pointed out that being against gay marriage had been the law of the land for years — so was everybody prejudiced before?
In the past, in a different world that we no longer live in, most people never even thought about this issue and I agree that they shouldn’t be called bigots or prejudiced. However, in today’s society, where the information is here and where no one can deny that people’s rights are being violated (only that they agree with the rights being violated) it’s a lot harder to defend yourself against labels like “bigot” or “prejudiced.”
If what you want takes away someone else’s rights for reasons for which they can’t control, then by definition your view is prejudiced, isn’t it?
However, I also think it’s not a good idea to call these people bigots or prejudiced. (Well, most of them — some are so full of hate that they deserve the label). Most people who are against gay marriage are, well, ignorant.
I don’t mean that in an insulting way. Being ignorant is not a bad thing. (I, for instance, am ignorant about calculus, fashion, and football teams.) Ignorant is not the same thing as stupid. Ignorance can be cured with education.
I think people who are against gay marriage are ignorant about the issue. They haven’t really thought it through and once they do, they will come to the right side. Maybe their religion keeps them ignorant (lots of religions do that) and maybe they like being ignorant. But that doesn’t necessarily make them bigots.
I am old enough to remember when the thought of gay marriage was just plain silly. Although I had plenty of gay friends in school and even some gay housemates when I was in college, I never considered marriage as a serious thing for them. Marriage is for men and women, I’d say. And then I wouldn’t think about the issue. It wasn’t until the gay marriage movement started much later that I said to myself, “Hey, they’re right. Why shouldn’t they get married?” I wasn’t a bigot or prejudiced; I just never really thought about it seriously before that time. And I think that’s probably where a lot of people are today.
So let’s encourage them to see the light. Let’s make them see that treating people as second class citizens is wrong, and that we should be encouraging love and marriage.
“We are a better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history,” wrote Judge John E. Jones III (a Republican!) in his decision. And he is absolutely correct.
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An etymological breakdown of the word “prejudiced” is literally “pre-judging”, or “making a decision before obtaining the facts”.
I dare say that prejudice _is_ ignorant.
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You could be called liberal, not advanced into the 21st century. Just because something feels good doesn’t mean you should do it. The natural order of things is for men and women to marry. It is careless and thoughtless behavior that causes men to sleep with men and women with women. Call it kinky, call it post modern behavior, call it sexual freedom but don’t call it normal because it is not. Sex is for procreation. That’s obvious. Homosexuality is about sensuality, but it is not normal. There’s a reason why for centuries men and women have done all they can do to keep their sexual preferences secret and its because they knew it was abnormal behavior and unaccepted. These are the days when anything goes and that’s because we are following the flesh. The flesh is revered to the exclusion of all else in the 21st century. We are our own gods. Don’t give me Oh, but it’s love, because love is only an excuse. What is love anyway? Don’t you realize that homosexual marriages have the highest rate of divorce than any other population ever? And did you know that monogamy in same sex marriage is rare, especially among male same sex couples? When discussing the book “The Myth of Male Homosexual Monogamy” Elizabeth Iskander of the web site AdVindicate http://advindicate.com/articles/3022 states that ” Male homosexuals are very seldom monogamous; they overwhelmingly reject the type of relationship most heterosexuals think of when they think of marriage: a long-term relationship where sexual activity is strictly limited to one’s marriage partner. One homosexual writer admits that “trying to locate monogamy among gay men is like trying to hunt for truffles.”
Male sexuality, whether oriented toward females or other males, craves variety. But whereas almost all heterosexual men, perhaps after “sowing wild oats,” settle down with one woman, homosexual men do not settle down. Ever. A classic, large-scale study by Bell and Weinberg conducted during the 1970s and published by the Kinsey Institute found that forty-three percent (43%) of white male homosexuals had had sex with 500 or more partners, and twenty-eight percent (28%) had had sex with 1,000 or more partners. Seventy-nine percent (79%) said that more than half of their sexual partners had been strangers.[i] In 1985, Pollack found that gay men averaged “several dozen partners a year” and “some hundreds in a lifetime” with “tremendous promiscuity.”[ii] In their 1997 study of the sexual profiles of 2,583 older homosexuals published in the Journal of Sex Research, Paul Van de Ven, et al., found that “the modal range for number of sexual partners was 101-500.” In addition, 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent had between 501 and 1,000 partners. A further 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent reported having had more than one thousand lifetime sexual partners.[iii]”
“Obviously, homosexual men could not have hundreds or thousands of sexual partners if they spent much time in monogamous, sexually exclusive relationships. And they don’t. Even though many male homosexuals describe themselves as being in a committed relationship, male homosexual relationships tend not to last long. According to one study, in 71% of cases, the male homosexual “long term relationship” had lasted seven or fewer years. Only 29% of male homosexuals who described themselves as being in a long-term relationship had been in a relationship lasting more than seven years, and only 9% had been in a relationship lasting more than 15 years.[v] By contrast, about half of first (heterosexual) marriages last 20 years or longer.[vi]”
So, I ask you, what is the point of going to court and winning this so called battle? It is a farce. I do not believe lesbian women have much more luck, from what I’ve seen. I don’t know one lesbian relationship that lasted more than a few years.
I’m sorry, but your exuberance for this latest post modern display of lust trying to masquerade as something good and decent is ill fated. Its only yet another incidence of Hollywood-bred ideals passed on to otherwise decent people as normal and that it should be the right of all to experience it. Hollywood will end up being the downfall of the human race as we all become more and more sensually oriented individuals.While Hollywood moguls and their counterparts in the military industrial complex, seek to pull America down by degradation and the destruction of our character and our souls, then, they plan their own empire based on trans-humanism,, a New World Order,the integration of every person on the planet into their globalist system and
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You are wrong in so many ways I am not even going to waste time responding.
If it helps you, simply replace “gay” and “lesbian” in your comments with “negro” and pretend it’s 1966. Because that is how you will be viewed in 50 years — just as ignorant and bigoted as the people who tried to explain away their racism.
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