Gay Marriage

OK, so the Georgia Supreme Court is going to allow a vote on the ballot to amend the State Constitution to ban same sex marriage. Maybe that was my turnip truck that just pulled out, but why the hell is this an issue for the state? What real privileges do married people have that single folks don't. I mean, you can use the thing about getting more taxes back, but isn't it your money anyway? Last time I checked, the divorce rate in this country was a screamin' 50 percent. Sounds to me like marriage ain't all that - and if that's the case, why wouldn't the backward ass, country morons want to allow gay folks the opportunity to be as miserable as the married ones?

Besides, in this state and in very few (special) others, we have something called, "Common Law" marriage. That means that if you've been with someone for a certain period of time and you consider yourself faithful to each other, you can call yourself married and you automatically have all the rights of the married (in the sense of the law) as those who walk down to the County courthouse. Granted, this is a law that was enacted 200 years ago when all those right-winged Christian fundamentalists were trying to figure out an excuse to screw each other without a wedding band, but the law is still in effect. Why the hell couldn't a gay couple use this same law for their own benefit?

Roomie and I have fallen under the common law marriage title. We get to enjoy the "privilege" of filing as a married couple, we get the "privilege" of creating a pain for our employer, and best of all, we get the "privilege" of giving some schmuck lawyer 100 bucks in the event that we want to get "divorced" - yup, that's right, we have whatcha call a common law deeee-vors here, too). The only reason we don't go down to the courthouse to get married is because that too costs money. And, of course, me being Catholic and roomie being a heathen, the Church wouldn't recognize the marriage anyway.

And speaking of the Almighty Church, marriage was never intended to be controlled by government anyway. That's why we call it a holy sacrament. It is an issue that belongs in the Church and the Church only. However, not even everyone in the most strict Catholic upbringing can agree on whether or not to allow same sex marriage. For example, if you have a brain and a conscience, you would agree that as long as two people truly love each other, who gives a rat's ass if they are same sex or not? I love the people out there who like to twist around passages of the Bible and try to convince the brain-dead that GOD said homosexuality was a sin. Let me tell you, if you're talking to God, you're a schizophrenic and you need help and besides, there were lots of folks wandering the Holy Land looking for love in all the wrong pastures for God to worry about human homosexuality.

I say, live and let live. Basic, simple, but in reality, leaves nothing to be desired. If everyone were so worried about their own lives as they are about others, we wouldn't have disease, poverty, crime, and all the other cherries that life throws our way.