I'm posting this HERE because I won't post it THERE.

[Tyler Durden]

By THERE I mean GD-P. I swore I wouldn't go back there, and I won't. If someone thinks any of this is worth a shit, feel free to use it. It's in response to what I saw as the rather NAIVE positions taken, so here it is:


There is only ONE OPTION here legal under the Constitution:

EQUAL TREATMENT UNDER THE LAW.

That means EQUAL.
That means if there is one single solitary difference between a marriage of heterosexuals and a same-sex marriage, then it violates the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

This means it is NOT up to the states to decide which partnership gets what benefits and which doesn't.
This means it doesn't matter One Single Solitary IOTA whether or not some religious group thinks homosexuality is evil or not.
This means it isn't up to bigots who say "...gays are icky..." as to whether every single person gets their equal rights under the law.

This means that Barack Obama saying he will keep an open ear to bigots and their concerns is even WORSE than his pandering to the Black Evangelicals with Donnie McClurkin and Kirbyjohn Caldwell, as bad as that is.

What everyone seems to miss there, is that this is once, now and FOR THE REST OF THE LIFETIME OF THIS REPUBLIC, a question as to whether or not this nation is dedicated to EQUAL TREATMENT UNDER THE LAW, or if this is just another issue that can be fudged on so as to pick up a couple of votes.

If it is the former, we have a chance to see the Republic through to where, in time, it may evolve TRULY to what Jefferson called "...a more perfect Union..."

IF THE LATTER, the clock to the dissolution of the Republic just got rewound, as GLBT Rights are CIVIL RIGHTS, and without Civil Rights, the nation is a sham and we travail in its service totally in vain.

Here endeth the lesson.