Mawaige, that bwessed awangement, that dweam wifin a dweam...
I’m watching the beginnings of the coverage of the Federal Marriage Amendment on C-SPAN, and I just wanted to take a moment to say three things:
1. Anyone who claims this cynical bit of wedge-politicking bullshit is about protecting marriage is either a lying piece of shit or a retrofuck jackhole who views marriage not as a union of two people who love one another, but as an institution that celebrates a false ideal of “normalcy” by conferring upon those who enter into it a multitude of rights that are denied to others legally barred from participation. Or both.
2. Any marriage is only ever as good as the two people in it. Who else gets married or doesn’t get married has no bearing on its strength—or “sanctity”—whatsoever.
3. I firmly believe that the value of my individual marriage is determined exclusively by Mr. Shakes and me, but the value of marriage as a whole is diminished because we refuse to allow every American citizen to participate in it by marrying whom they choose, irrespective of their partner’s gender. Restricting marriage does not make it worth more. It makes it worth less.
As long as the “Marriage Protection” advocates argue to the contrary, I will continue, until the breath leaves my body, if need be, to tell anyone who will listen that they are utterly full of shit.
Speaking of full of shit, Bush is about to deliver his statements on the amendment.
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