Comments on: Somebody’s Getting Married! Oh My! http://www.angryzenmaster.com/2008/05/19/somebodys-getting-married-oh-my/ Enlightenment Through Focused Rage Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:26:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: McDucky http://www.angryzenmaster.com/2008/05/19/somebodys-getting-married-oh-my/#comment-21531 Wed, 21 May 2008 02:08:15 +0000 http://www.angryzenmaster.com/2008/05/19/somebodys-getting-married-oh-my/#comment-21531 I'd like to add that out of all the arguments that I've seen against gay marriage, none of them are singular to a legally married couple. Adoption, taxes, benefits ... all these things are still provided for a gay couple who isn't married, or a single person, or a divorced person, or a widowed person. The only argument that sticks out to me is that it offends the religious sensibilities of a group of people who don't want people being "gay" around them. And that argument is offensive in the same manner of all discrimination. I’d like to add that out of all the arguments that I’ve seen against gay marriage, none of them are singular to a legally married couple. Adoption, taxes, benefits … all these things are still provided for a gay couple who isn’t married, or a single person, or a divorced person, or a widowed person.

The only argument that sticks out to me is that it offends the religious sensibilities of a group of people who don’t want people being “gay” around them. And that argument is offensive in the same manner of all discrimination.

]]> by: Wayne http://www.angryzenmaster.com/2008/05/19/somebodys-getting-married-oh-my/#comment-21439 Tue, 20 May 2008 19:45:53 +0000 http://www.angryzenmaster.com/2008/05/19/somebodys-getting-married-oh-my/#comment-21439 My wife and I almost didn't get married, which wouldn't have prevented us from living together as a couple and having kids. She has some rather strong opinions on gay marriage, and she didn't want to benefit from it when gay couples could not. Case in point: her father died eleven days after we got married and just a few days after we got back from our honeymoon. She flew to where I lived to get the flight to Ohio (standard air traffic routing, I lived in a major hub city) and we got tickets for me to go to the funeral. She went to the person at the gate counter and was able to get our seats reasssigned so that we could sit together. She commented that she didn't think that they would have done that for a gay couple. We got married largely because her dad was dying of cancer, and she wanted to give him the gift of knowing that she married reasonably well. My wife and I almost didn’t get married, which wouldn’t have prevented us from living together as a couple and having kids. She has some rather strong opinions on gay marriage, and she didn’t want to benefit from it when gay couples could not. Case in point: her father died eleven days after we got married and just a few days after we got back from our honeymoon. She flew to where I lived to get the flight to Ohio (standard air traffic routing, I lived in a major hub city) and we got tickets for me to go to the funeral. She went to the person at the gate counter and was able to get our seats reasssigned so that we could sit together. She commented that she didn’t think that they would have done that for a gay couple.

We got married largely because her dad was dying of cancer, and she wanted to give him the gift of knowing that she married reasonably well.

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