Gay Marriage Thoughts

The SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) is weighing in on gay marriage and determining the Constitutionality.  The reading of the tea leaves indicate that SCOTUS will overturn DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act).  Then again, I thought the Supreme Court would overturn Obamacare, so you never know.

But popular opinion is rapidly swinging in favor of gay marriage.  Especially among the young.  This is a good thing, IMHO- I have several friends who are gay, and I want them to be happy as I am in my marriage.  

I can think of several tangents, though:

1)  I never, never understood why Social Conservatives were against gay marriage.   It seems to me they should have been leading the charge for gay marriage.  Long term committed relationships are healthy and should be ENCOURAGED. 

2)  I'm still confused by the political points on this one.  Barack Obama ran against gay marriage in 2008.  The fact that he changed his opinion is nice, but he was still several years behind Dick Cheney, Ted Olson, Colin Powell, etc. 

Ah, hell- I disagree with the President on just about everything else.  Might as well give him credit on one of the few things I do agree with him on :)

3)  In every couple, there is one person who wants to get married more than the other.  Right now, look at every gay couple you know- one of them is thinking, "Damn- there goes that excuse."  

4)  Should the Supreme Court support gay marriage in all 50 states, there's going to be a floodgates of marriages.  I'm a good capitalist, and thinking "How can I profit from this?".  It may be time to start investing in florists and bakeries before the deluge.

5)  Is it rude to ask all of my friends who are gay "Are you getting married yet?  Are you getting married yet?  When?  When?  When?"  Sure, it's rude- but it is a consequence of having the right to marry :)

See, here's the thing about Americans from the United States: We really, really HATE to be told what to do.

We revel in our Independence. In D&D Terms, we're Chaotic Good (OK, bordering on Chaotic Neutral). We make fun of our leaders- doesn't matter what party they come from. Every night, you can see comedians tearing the very people we elected to run the nation apart. Hell- the whole country started when the thirteen colonies flipped King George the middle finger.

Now, you need to keep that in mind when we're talking about Chick-Fil-A.

Now, the owners of Chick-Fil-A is against gay marriage, and that's riling people up (for some reason, those same people weren't upset when Barack Obama was against gay marriage- but I'm going off on a tangent). So people started a boycott. Great. Fantastic. It's the Free Market in action- people expressing their opinions with their dollars. It's beautiful- I'm ready to cry.

But then people went overboard. Mayors in places like Chicago and San Francisco decided that it wasn't enough to boycott, that they were going to use the power of their offices to throw the evil and vile Chick-Fil-A out of their town and make sure such a horrific business never operated in their town.

In other words, the mayors were going to tell their citizens what they could eat.

Now, remember what I said about Americans hating being told what they could do? Well, Chick-Fil-A is getting a lot of business today.

As for me? I'm for gay marriage. I like Chick-Fil-A's food, though it's a little too expensive for my tastes. And if someone tries to ban Chick-Fil-A from Cleveland, I'm eating there for a week straight.

Memo to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

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Folks,

I think we're missing a huge opportunity here.  Single families are two to six times more likely to be poor than married families.     This makes sense- married families are more stable, two parents are better for raising children than one, etc.

In addition, married voters favor voting for Romney over Obama by 13%.  This isn't a fluke- married voters favored McCain in 2008, while single voters favored Obama.  It's a trend, and one we should be taking notice of.

So- remind me why we're against gay marriage?

The trend's obvious- the more stable marriages, the better society is, the fewer people stay in poverty, and the more they come to their senses and vote Conservative.

This is a win-win situation.  Let's not botch this one up.