Where the FUCK is your righteous anger?
Tags: bisexual, discrimination, equality, gay, Homophobia, lesbian, marriage, marriage equality, Panti 'Pandora' Bliss, same-sex marriage, Transgender 
This is why I love Panti.
Some selected quotes:
When some bouncer in the George is mean to a drunk gay, the forums light up with horrified nellies, protests are mooted, and Facebook groups are set up. But when a fundamental human right, available to everyone in every civilisation since the formation of human societies is denied them, they can’t be arsed getting out of bed. Where is the righteous anger?
When Sunday clubbing hours are curtailed, angry gays join angry protests outside the Dáil, petitions clog up our inboxes, and outraged gays shout about the nanny state. But when the government that taxes them the same as everyone else, tells them that in return they’ll only have some of the same rights afforded to everyone else, they can’t be arsed having brunch an hour later than usual. Where the fuck is the anger?
When Alexandra and a bunch of other people you’d never heard of a few weeks earlier, make it to the X Factor final, you won’t leave the house and no one can get through to you because you’re furiously text voting, but when you’re told you’re a second class citizen and your relationships aren’t real relationships, you can’t be arsed walking over to Dame St from H&M because the cute assistant has just gone to check if they have that cute jacket in your size. Where the FUCK is your righteous anger?
And don’t bother telling me that you’re not interested in marriage. That you think it’s an outmoded institution, a hangover from a patriarchal society that was only about the protection of property. I don’t give a crap. Plenty of other gays do want to get married, and you should be furious on their behalf. Furious that something as basic and fundamental as marriage, something that is taken for granted by everyone else, something that society expects, encourages and cherishes for everyone else, is closed off to them, and them only. Anyone else can get married. Any race, any creed, any gender… Hell! Any idiot, murderer, rapist, child molester. Any asshole, racist, queer-basher. Any dumb-fuck soccer hooligan. Any mentally disturbed lunatic. But not the gays! The sky will fall down!
She needs to run for election.
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Excellent clear analysis. You have a better grasp than most of our Dail members who quickly reach for the constitutional excuse when it comes to the issue of same sex marriage!
They want us to believe that marriage is a religious institution and therefore excludes gay marriage. They want us to forget that 1.) Many religious organizations will happily join two people in loving union, no matter what their gender, and therefore it’s a matter of our right to freedom from religious persecution, if we reject what one man’s church defines as “right” and “wrong.” Under their own definitions of marriage as a religious institution, if there is *any* man/woman of the cloth who accepts a marriage as valid, then it is valid. and 2.)They want us to forget that this country was founded on a separation of Church and State *because* we have religious freedom and no one church’s definition of “right” and “wrong” should be viewed as Catholic (in the strict sense of that word) and forced upon those who would reject its tenets. We have the right to be Agnostic. We have the right to be Atheist. We have the right to be Presbyterian. Under the definitions of our laws, “marriage” if defined as a religious institution has no place being regulated by government. There’s nothing to vote about. You go to church, you ask your pastor/priestess to counsel you… and bam. You exchange your vows and embark on that most wondrous journey as two made one flesh…
The answer is not to vote for (or not vote for) gay marriage. The answer is to vote to ban marriage. Yes, you heard right. BAN MARRIAGE as a GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION. Once we admit that it’s religious, leave it up to the churches.
Then the government can redefine the life-committment of two people (and possibility of starting a family) as a CIVIL UNION. Anyone can join that club… because the government cannot outlaw personal choices and freedoms that hurt no one at all just because God says to. Leave it up to the churches, whether to allow two people to join *under the eyes of God*. This is the way they do it in some other countries that I know for a fact (whether or not the Civil Unions are only heterosexual I don’t know). Most people choose to do both, but it isn’t required… The Church Wedding isn’t recognized by the State in Guatemala, for instance, but most people do have one. The Civil Union is required for a “marriage” to be recognized and received the perks available to such couples through the government… There is the possibility that– even with Civil Unions– some smartass might bring it to the vote to exclude certain people… Yes, and there are enough smartasses in our world to agree with them. But force them to prove it’s constitutional to ban one type of Civil Union. They will lose (well, it might takes years, and run into a few fundamental judges who agree, but ultimately, refusing privileges to a select few citizens based on religion/race/sex *is* inconstitutional.)
Stop letting them tell you that gay marriage should be voted down because God doesn’t like it. Tell them you won’t stand for a religious issue to be voted on at all. Demand a separation of Church and State as every American’s contitution right…
That’s my two cents worth, for what it’s worth.
((I am a married, heterosexual woman… I support marriage in any form or combination between consenting adults– and I think God is a personal matter and has no place in Secular Law. Laws should be made according to who is hurt by an action… and no one can tell me that two people in love wanting to spend their lives together hurts *anyone* or anything in our society/world! For God’s laws and morality, I speak to my pastor, or read the Bible. I don’t consult the Governor.))
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