RE: My views on gay mariage
July 18, 2013 at 6:46 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2013 at 6:49 am by TheStateIsALie.)
Why is gay marriage being legalized such a central issue for the LGBT community? They keep going on about how marriage is all about love... well then, get married! -No one can stop you. I really dont understand why they need the state to condone their love.
Surely there are more important things to be focused on? There are kids out there committing suicide because they believe that they are freaks and abominations, there are countries in this world where people get executed for the simple 'crime' of having sex with another consenting adult and there is so much propaganda out there, in our everyday TV programmes and in our schools, which dehumanize LGBT people and make them out to be little more than a joke.
There is even discrimination and misunderstanding within the LGBT community itself.
And why is the LGBT movement so obsessed with a custom (marriage) that has traditionally been so patriarchal and conservative?
Emma Goldman once said about the feminist movement:
"The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in woman's soul. History tells us that every oppressed class gained true liberation from its masters through its own efforts. It is necessary that woman learn that lesson, that she realize that her freedom will reach as far as her power to achieve her freedom reaches. It is, therefore, far more important for her to begin with her inner regeneration, to cut loose from the weight of prejudices, traditions, and customs."
Surely there are more important things to be focused on? There are kids out there committing suicide because they believe that they are freaks and abominations, there are countries in this world where people get executed for the simple 'crime' of having sex with another consenting adult and there is so much propaganda out there, in our everyday TV programmes and in our schools, which dehumanize LGBT people and make them out to be little more than a joke.
There is even discrimination and misunderstanding within the LGBT community itself.
And why is the LGBT movement so obsessed with a custom (marriage) that has traditionally been so patriarchal and conservative?
Emma Goldman once said about the feminist movement:
"The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in woman's soul. History tells us that every oppressed class gained true liberation from its masters through its own efforts. It is necessary that woman learn that lesson, that she realize that her freedom will reach as far as her power to achieve her freedom reaches. It is, therefore, far more important for her to begin with her inner regeneration, to cut loose from the weight of prejudices, traditions, and customs."
