Equality For All The word marriage has been an exclusive club for too long. Gay men and women have always been around. They are loving people who want and deserve the same rights as everyone else. They are not 2nd class citizens, pedophiles, or evil.
We have a problem. Our government has been listening to many different fundamental religions that fear change and see different lifestyles as a threat to their existence. The time has come for the United States Government to be reminded that it belongs to all people of all faith's and sexual orientation.
Fundamentalist Religions and all other prejudice groups do not own this country.
So how do we respect the churches who do not want to marry gays or lesbians? We let them discriminate if that is their choice. But the government can and will no longer be allowed to deny these innocent people the right to be recognized as a couple.
When two men, two women, or a man and a woman go to the court house they should be able to enter into a partnership or contract that states their intention to be in relationship together.
The rights they are then given must be EQUAL. The problem that keeps many from allowing this to occur is the word marriage.
The solution is to erase the word from the government's dictionary.
Our tax forms must give Gays and Straight's EQUAL rights and a new word or group of words to describe their relationship.
Whatever word or words we choose will free the government from the hassle of being told that marriage is only for one man and one woman.
The church and society will still be able to use either words but it will only be the exclusivists who continue to only allow straights to marry in their hallowed halls.
So that's where I need your help. I am beginning to look for the new equal rights word or words now.
I will be putting together a signature drive of over 1000 names of people in the state of Rhode Island who either agree in the new word(s) or want the word marriage to be removed from our tax forms.
I look forward to your input and adding your support to this extremely important issue.
Nathan J DeSisto
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Comments
Perhaps the easiest move to make is to call a civil marriage a "civil marriage", a religious marriage a "religious marriage", and someone that has both can just say their "married" and could be explained further that they have both if it needs further clarification. In this way people could divorce from a civil marriage and still be religiously married, or vice versa, and the termination of one would clearly not rest on the termination of the other; thus, further separating church and state. However, that may not be enough of a distinction for some people; though, it would be good enough for me.
Posted by Colin Foley on 02/06/2009 @ 10:45PM PT