Let's hope this anonymous comment thing works. I'm sorry it's so long. First I thought I didn't have time to write it all out, then I realized I had the time to write it all out but not to make it shorter. In fact, the comment I wrote at first is bigger than the maximum space allowed, so it'll have to appear in two parts. Here we go:
I'm lukewarm on gay marriage, but not because I think gay sex is an abomination. Far from it, I have gay friends I adore, who are married to each other and have children, and are some of the happiest most exemplary couples I know (not that they should have to model that behavior, but it just so happens they do).
It's not that I oppose gay marriage so much as I'm angry that it is a priority for either side. In my view gay marriage is mostly a stick the right wing has used to beat progressives into submission. Gay marriage is maybe number 3721 on my list of urgent problems facing society. In a perfect world I'd like for gay couples to have inheritance and visitation rights and all, I just see many more urgent problems in line ahead of that.
I admit that there's an element of political calculation here: I don't want to spend a nickel of political capital on gay marriage because I often find that gays couldn't care less about or actively oppose my own progressive priorities (I'm basically an old-fashioned tax-and-spend-and-regulate liberal).
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Date: 2008-11-05 09:35 pm (UTC)I'm lukewarm on gay marriage, but not because I think gay sex is an abomination. Far from it, I have gay friends I adore, who are married to each other and have children, and are some of the happiest most exemplary couples I know (not that they should have to model that behavior, but it just so happens they do).
It's not that I oppose gay marriage so much as I'm angry that it is a priority for either side. In my view gay marriage is mostly a stick the right wing has used to beat progressives into submission. Gay marriage is maybe number 3721 on my list of urgent problems facing society. In a perfect world I'd like for gay couples to have inheritance and visitation rights and all, I just see many more urgent problems in line ahead of that.
I admit that there's an element of political calculation here: I don't want to spend a nickel of political capital on gay marriage because I often find that gays couldn't care less about or actively oppose my own progressive priorities (I'm basically an old-fashioned tax-and-spend-and-regulate liberal).
TBC