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becca and i attended a talk over gay marriage and its sociolegal ramifications, replete with a university employee who recently got married in san francisco and two outstanding professors in the fields of sociology and political science.

it spurred a conversation that would have the two of us, very open-minded people, mulling over what the consequences would be once the legality of same-sex marriage gets hotly debated over. it took america ninety years after the abolishment of slavery to accept blacks as equals; forty years later, we're mulling over the equal standing of people with a non-heteronormative sexual preference.

"it's somewhat counterintuitive that what we think to be rational never turns into law."

something so fundamentally basic as equality for everyone, and we can't even decide if it's all right for two people of the same sex (who have a relationship) to own something together, to pay more taxes which would jumpstart the economy, to have the right to be in the hospital for their partner and have some say over what happens to their partner... all of these benefits, maybe even more (the list in california is over one thousand forty items), that we're basically denying.

equality's all we're saying, yo. it's not tough.

posted by Open Source Food @ 12:56 AM