Prop. 8 Trial: Yale Professor Details Over 100 Years of Homophobia

• Marriage isn't about love. You can be in love and not be married. You can be married and not be in love. Marriage isn't about sex. You can have sex and not be married. You can be married and not have sex. Marriage isn't about children. You can have children and not be married. You can be married and not have children. Marriage isn't about religion. You can be an atheist and be married. You can be married without a preacher. Marriage isn't about vows. You can make vows without being married. You can be married without vows, only an "I Do". You don't need rings to be married. You can wear rings without being married. You can be married without exchanging rings. Marriage is about property, kinship and inheritance. The marriage license is an application for State and Federal benefits granted a specific class of people. All arguments about love, romance, reproduction, religious dogma and family values are PERSONAL BAGGAGE and cultural ignorance of the legal reasons for marriage. Arguments that aren't about property, kinship and inheritance are moot and it's upsetting that those points are being allowed in court to the virtual exclusion of the law and the spirit of the law itself. Denying US Citizens benefits granted other US Citizens on the basis of their sexual orientation is unconstitutional. Denying gays benefits because they offend the sensibilities of bigots is no more valid than denying the bigots the same benefits because "I" am offended by them.

• "While many gay Americans know something about this history, a large number of straight folks still don't have a clue." ________________________________________________________ And, clearly, straight people, by and large, could care less. They ARE the people who are abusing gay people. Why would we think that they care? Or have 'a clue.' It's like saying that the KKK will change if only they could see the harm they do. They won't. Neither will heterosexuals. They will continue to create gay children, and they will continue to abuse them from cradle to grave. While screaming their stupid heads off about morality. It gives them some sore of perverse thrill - that their gay children have to seek their civil rights from those that oppress them. Nothing unfair about that, right? Saddest and sickest of all is that straight people TEACH this hatred to their children. Again. Morality? Indeed. I would rather be gay for a hundred lifetimes than to be a heterosexual with the capability of treating their very own creations in such vile and despicable ways as they do their gay children. Being able to listen to the discrimination that we have endured only EXCITES them. It strengthens their resolve to abuse and degrade. They already know what they have done in the past and continue to do this very day. THEY DO NOT CARE. They think that we DESERVE this treatment. Again. Morality? Where? Cuz I sure don't see it. In any of them.

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