Shame-faced
A divided Senate approved the bill 18-15 Wednesday and sent it back to the House, expected to approve minor changes next week. Gov. Bob Taft has said he will sign the bill.
Marriage between a man and a woman is the best environment for children, although adults can form whatever “household relationships they want,” said Sen. Jeff Jacobson, a Dayton-area Republican who voted for the bill.
Ugh. I just don’t get it. I don’t understand how giving people legal rights is a problem. If you’ve got the religious conviction that gay marriage is wrong, then I strongly urge you not to marry a gay person. Recognizing gay marriage doesn’t hurt straight people. It doesn’t hurt married straight people. It doesn’t hurt married straight people who are against gay marriage. So let’s just recognize it and move on, ‘kay? I’m sure there will still be many, many conservative religious leaders who will refuse to conduct gay marriage ceremonies and stuff so all the people who are against gay marriage can go to their churches and synagogues and talk about how the rest of us are going to hell. But let’s keep religion out of our government decisions, shall we?
I really really really hope that Ohio does the right thing here.
Exactly what I said as I read the news aloud after dinner over here on the other side of Ohio. Seems too much to hope for somehow.
here are some of the other insults in their action:
1) they said a child’s best environment is being raised by a man and a woman. this steps past the issues of same sex marriages and into the realm of scientifically disproven judgement about what’s best for children.
2) they said that a child’s best environment is being raised by a man and a woman. this means equally condemning single parents of either gener and sexual orientation.
shame, Ohio, shame.
You know what I really don’t get? Until recently, I never knew there were people who were “morally opposed to homosexuality” for non-religious reasons. Now I hear this frequently. I don’t get it…
I’m definitely going to link back to your entry in the days coming up. I agree with you 100%–and I’m an older person. The religious right scares the beejesus out of me. Dubya scares me.
Fran
The way this is handeled by and thought of by some people with power makes me both very sad and very angry, for me and for my daughter. My husband and I teach her love and kindness. How do we expain to her that some people think that there is a kind of love that is bad? I hate that I have to tell her that! I want to cry and scream, “It effects you in no way! Don’t you see you are hating love and creating an atmosphere of judgement without reason! Just mind your own business! And let everyone participate in the right to marry! You aren’t protecting marriage you shame it when you refuse to see what it is really about; two people in love!”