Election Day

Today I’ll be voting and casting a big fat NO on South Carolina’s marriage amendment.

Those pro the amendment claim that a yes vote is a vote for marriage and a vote ”to preserve marriage as the institution history intends it to be: between one man and one woman”.

Hogwash I say. A vote for yes is discrimination plain and simple and will “constitutionally relegate gay and lesbian South Carolinians- and their children- to second-class citizenship. I will definitely be saying no to this kind of family discrimination.

One of my good friends is a lesbian and she has been in a loving, monogamous relationship with her partner for 26 years. Twenty. Six. Years. She’s not asking for much; just the right to put her partner on her health insurance. It drives me cuh-razy that just because I am straight I have been able to get married twice and both times, put my husband on my health insurance. The first time, I was only married 6 months. Six. Months. Roll that around in your head for a minute. Twenty six years versus six months. Ummm, yeah, the straights are really are doing a lot for the sanctity of marriage, aren’t we?

I don’t know why people are so afraid of gay marriage. It’s as if granting homosexuals the right to get married and be as miserable as all of us heterosexuals is somehow going to lead to social anarchy. I have heard the old, tired out slippery slop argument time and time again (from those who have obviously received their university degrees in stupid) that if we allow homosexuals to marry then what’s next? Allowing people to marry animals?

My comeback?

“Well, I already married a pig.”