Whether you agree with same sex marriage or not, I think this gay person is probably the most honest about the movement that I've read to date
http://nogaymarriage.wordpress.com/2008/...-marriage/
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Bravo. It's good to see that gays are not monolithic on the topic. They aren't all radicalized and want to politicize their homosexuality. I have no problem with gays like this that are just cool being gay, aren't trying to force everyone to love and accept it and just want to be left alone to live how they want to live. That's cool with me. The people that annoy me the most are the uber-PC SWPLs that are ready to excoriate anyone that isn't pro-gay. Some of them can be even more radically pro-gay than gays themselves. They are worse than radical male feminists.
http://nogaymarriage.wordpress.com/2008/...-marriage/
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I am also a homosexual male against same-sex “marriage.” My opposition to same-sex marriage stems mainly from my deep respect for traditional aesthetic values. Marriage, as an institution, was designed for heterosexual couples and as author Jack Donovan has pointed out “we have thousands of years of poetry and history and art and theater that conceptualize marriage as a romantic mating dance between a man and a woman.” Marriage has and always will be rooted in the male-female relationship and was never intended for homosexual couples. I am annoyed by the silly attempts of so many gay men and lesbians to imitate the nuclear family and in the process redefine a centuries old institution for their own selfish political ends.
A recent story illustrates my point: Queen Sofia of Spain, a country where same-sex marriage has been legal since 2006, recently made comments criticizing the country’s new same-sex marriage law, saying: “If those people [gays and lesbians] want to live together, dress up like bride and groom and marry, they could have a right to do so, or not, depending on the law of their country, but they should not call this matrimony, because it isn’t.” Of course after she made these remarks gay activists in Spain went crazy, demanding that she immediately apologize to the gay community because her comments were “offensive.” Again, I am a homosexual male, and I find nothing offensive about her comments. I can find only truth in what she had to say. Gay men and lesbians may claim they are married and states may choose to recognize these marriages as legal, but there will always be people, those who balk at the notion of same-sex “marriage,” who will never truly consider these unions to be real marriages.
In their efforts to redefine marriage, gay activist are doing more harm than good. The issue is slowing down prospects for real progress, such as civil unions legislation and the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The Republican Party’s recent strategy of using the issue to elect conservative politicians who support the religious right also demonstrates this point. Demands for same-sex “marriage” are only slowing chances for real progress.
Bravo. It's good to see that gays are not monolithic on the topic. They aren't all radicalized and want to politicize their homosexuality. I have no problem with gays like this that are just cool being gay, aren't trying to force everyone to love and accept it and just want to be left alone to live how they want to live. That's cool with me. The people that annoy me the most are the uber-PC SWPLs that are ready to excoriate anyone that isn't pro-gay. Some of them can be even more radically pro-gay than gays themselves. They are worse than radical male feminists.