tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post5069731522642196095..comments2024-03-28T11:53:02.563-04:00Comments on Stayin' Alive: The world turned upside downCervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-91943096049941182682012-05-24T12:25:33.672-04:002012-05-24T12:25:33.672-04:00there was an article in the LATimes the other day,...there was an article in the LATimes the other day, also remarking on the fast progress of civil rights for gays: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gay-rights-movement-20120521,0,5637291.story<br /><br />as impatient as many of us are for faster changes and full equality, it is rather remarkable to see so many changes in so short a time -- particularly compared to other struggles for equality. <br /><br />in part this must be because earlier struggles for equality, even though they remain imperfectly realized, have been successful. i also think that attitudes are influenced by realizing that our friends, neighbors, relatives -- people just like us -- are LGBT. who they fall in love with does not invalidate everything else about them. <br /><br />others may have opinions about the marital choices of straight people -- but marriage is nonetheless a fundamental civil right for straight people. prisoners can marry. straight people can marry totally unsuitable others, marry for bad reasons, marry a virtual stranger in las vegas while drunk, marry as many times as they wish (consecutively). <br /><br />if all the bad examples of straight marriages do not threaten anybody else's marriage -- well, the marriage of a loving and committed same-sex couple cannot threaten the institution, either. <br /><br />i think it is kind of creepy that the anti-gay-marriage people spend so much time fretting and opinionating about other people's sex lives. (so do the anti-choice people, who by coincidence tend to be the same people.) what's up with that? they always use terms like "sanctity of marriage" and "sanctity of life" -- which by my definition means that decisions within my marriage and about my body are protected from the interference of meddlers. i wish for everyone to have that same freedom.kathy a.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14479337952651746193noreply@blogger.com