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Advocate, The: Why Milk is still fresh.
Advocate, The: Why Milk is still fresh.(Harvey Milk)
TIME Online Edition Feb. 16, 2004
The only time I can foresee myself never voting would be on the day that I have a choice of legalizing marriage for gays and lesbians. I am so conflicted by this issue that I don't think I could bring myself to voting either yes or no.
Should I vote no, and deny myself a right that so many people have fought for? Or should I vote yes, and solidifying in public record a vote that would go against even my own view of marriage as that between a man and a woman?
"Change is good," says one.
"Every generation redefine traditional meanings."
"Rules are meant to be broken."
Neither of this means that I would not support civil union or domestic partnership, because it sounds better than calling a same-sex relationship a marriage.
How could I ever get around to calling someone my "husband"? It's not something I've grown up in. I mean, when they were playing sports, I would think about marriage and having children. So, yeah, I've always thought I would have a wife. And yet, here I am, explicating on a view that has me so paralyzed . . .
See where the road bifurcates. I am still standing there, unwilling to choose a byway, and would rather delegate the heavy responsibilities to an elected officials, who must learn to balance what is right and what his constituents desire.
Now you see that which such tremendous power that voting can bring, and I would toss it aside, and let the "people" choose. Perhaps it is that, I am not qualified to vote on such a matter. It is because I am shifting between want and don't-want, flip-flopping in other words, that I am simply not qualified to vote.
Same-sex marriage is simply not an attractive proposition, not attractive enough if so many people are opposed to this. It's not like the Civil Rights because the majority of Americans did support Civil Rights, they were aghast enough by the "police brutality" that they wrote to their congress supporting civil rights.
It is also not like the Deaf President Now! movement, where the Deaf people went on a campus boycott to protest the instatement [right word?] of an unqualified hearing president in the Board.
TIME Online Edition Feb. 16, 2004
The only time I can foresee myself never voting would be on the day that I have a choice of legalizing marriage for gays and lesbians. I am so conflicted by this issue that I don't think I could bring myself to voting either yes or no.
Should I vote no, and deny myself a right that so many people have fought for? Or should I vote yes, and solidifying in public record a vote that would go against even my own view of marriage as that between a man and a woman?
"Change is good," says one.
"Every generation redefine traditional meanings."
"Rules are meant to be broken."
Neither of this means that I would not support civil union or domestic partnership, because it sounds better than calling a same-sex relationship a marriage.
How could I ever get around to calling someone my "husband"? It's not something I've grown up in. I mean, when they were playing sports, I would think about marriage and having children. So, yeah, I've always thought I would have a wife. And yet, here I am, explicating on a view that has me so paralyzed . . .
See where the road bifurcates. I am still standing there, unwilling to choose a byway, and would rather delegate the heavy responsibilities to an elected officials, who must learn to balance what is right and what his constituents desire.
Now you see that which such tremendous power that voting can bring, and I would toss it aside, and let the "people" choose. Perhaps it is that, I am not qualified to vote on such a matter. It is because I am shifting between want and don't-want, flip-flopping in other words, that I am simply not qualified to vote.
Same-sex marriage is simply not an attractive proposition, not attractive enough if so many people are opposed to this. It's not like the Civil Rights because the majority of Americans did support Civil Rights, they were aghast enough by the "police brutality" that they wrote to their congress supporting civil rights.
It is also not like the Deaf President Now! movement, where the Deaf people went on a campus boycott to protest the instatement [right word?] of an unqualified hearing president in the Board.
