I’m not really the blog-about-town, so I’m often the last to hear of these things, but I have heard of Proposition 8, and what voice I can add against it, I will.

However, I feel like my hands are tied. The examples I want to give on the subject have to do with people who probably shouldn’t be outed on my blog. Maybe that’s an argument in itself: the fact that I can’t even talk openly about people near and dear to me. It is still difficult and potentially dangerous just to admit you’re gay. Progress toward acceptance and basic rights is slow and difficult enough without the giant step backwards that Proposition 8 represents.

I encourage you all to go read Arwen’s eloquent post in defense of the demolition of “traditional” marriage. Ah, for the good old days, when men were men and women were chattel! In classical Greece, many believed that men could only truly love other men, because women were so morally and intellectually inferior that how could one possibly love them? Little do these traditionalists seem to realize that THAT – homosexuality on the side, not merely encouraged but expected – is one comically ironic extreme of their position.

* Y’know what’s sobering? The two things I wrote before settling on “you’re a monster” were “you suck” and “up yours”. And no sooner did I see the words in print than I realized those phrases both smack of sex phobia at the very least, and homophobia more likely. Nice way to defend gay marriage, Rach.