Saturday, December 13, 2008
language is a living thing
Prop 8 and its denouncing gay marriage as a human right is absolutely ridiculous. As an anthropologist, I find that the 68% of the American population that voted for the ban on same sex marriage are masking their homophobia for a conservative belief that the word marriage is strictly restricted to a life-long union between heterosexual couples.
Really? A 5000 year-old definition should be upheld? Well then, 30-year old men should be allowed to force 8-year old children to marry them. Men should still stone a 15-year old female to death because she was raped.
"Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality…we protect religion, and talk about a lifestyle choice."
People get so hung up on the definition of a word that they forget languages are living things. It changes over time with the norms and standards of decades, cultures, and societies. It is all hypocrisy in my eyes, and when people finally begin to admit that Prop 8 is just one more way for close-minded folk to spread hate and hang on to their prejudiced hateful beliefs, then a true conversation about equality and basic human rights can begin.
Disappointing.
The worst part is that I'm related to these people.
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