Opinion: Same Sex Marriage
Jesse Stoler
Issue date: 11/11/09 Section: Opinion
Last week, the voters in the state of Maine voted in favor of restricting marriage to heterosexual couples in a vote of 53 percent to 47 percent. This comes just six months after the governor, John E. Baldacci, signed a law that made Maine only the fifth state to recognize marriages between homosexual couples.
Sound familiar? Well the same thing happened in California last year as well with the now famous Proposition 8. Both states were already allowing for homosexuals to marry, and then the voters took that right away with the simple pull of lever.
I guess Maine voters were sick of all the changes that gay marriage brought to their lives: Weekly mandatory town hall screenings of Moulin Rouge, wear your stockings to work day, Lady Gaga being put on the state flag and what not. Oh wait, none of that happened? You mean that their economy didn't collapse and that the second graders haven't been lost to a world of moral malevolence? No, none of that. Gay marriage made Maine exactly what it was before: unbearably normal.
Yet television advertisements from the supporters of the measure in Maine would have you believe otherwise. Supporters always put forth such notions that allowing for gay marriage to continue will lead to teachers teaching homosexuality to grade school children. This is such an absurd concept. Everyone knows that school teachers don't do that; that job is reserved for Catholic priests. Yet Maine homophobes still turned out the advertisements of children, hypnotized by the gay agenda, all the while violin music plays in the background to warn of impending doom as if Norman Bates was standing right outside of your shower.
This issue is close to my heart for several reasons, one being that I do a have a close family member who chose to go up to Canada to marry her partner. Did this make me a different person? Well I'm four years older and I still can't grow a moustache, but I don't really blame that on gay marriage. But many men across the country do feel threatened by the issue; that somehow gays being able to marry will cause widespread emasculation. Gay marriage is currently allowed in four states, and none of those states are suffering from epidemics of male-on-male oral sex in sports bars.
Sound familiar? Well the same thing happened in California last year as well with the now famous Proposition 8. Both states were already allowing for homosexuals to marry, and then the voters took that right away with the simple pull of lever.
I guess Maine voters were sick of all the changes that gay marriage brought to their lives: Weekly mandatory town hall screenings of Moulin Rouge, wear your stockings to work day, Lady Gaga being put on the state flag and what not. Oh wait, none of that happened? You mean that their economy didn't collapse and that the second graders haven't been lost to a world of moral malevolence? No, none of that. Gay marriage made Maine exactly what it was before: unbearably normal.
Yet television advertisements from the supporters of the measure in Maine would have you believe otherwise. Supporters always put forth such notions that allowing for gay marriage to continue will lead to teachers teaching homosexuality to grade school children. This is such an absurd concept. Everyone knows that school teachers don't do that; that job is reserved for Catholic priests. Yet Maine homophobes still turned out the advertisements of children, hypnotized by the gay agenda, all the while violin music plays in the background to warn of impending doom as if Norman Bates was standing right outside of your shower.
This issue is close to my heart for several reasons, one being that I do a have a close family member who chose to go up to Canada to marry her partner. Did this make me a different person? Well I'm four years older and I still can't grow a moustache, but I don't really blame that on gay marriage. But many men across the country do feel threatened by the issue; that somehow gays being able to marry will cause widespread emasculation. Gay marriage is currently allowed in four states, and none of those states are suffering from epidemics of male-on-male oral sex in sports bars.
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