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[batyatoon]

I support gay rights, and I intend to support gay rights until I no longer have to because they're taken for granted.

I should probably specify that I'm talking about rights under American law. It's been pointed out to me that my religion forbids homosexuality. So it does, and I'm not looking to reform my religion; I'm looking to make sure that religious and civil law stay as separate as they can possibly be.

Which is to say that if the right to open a seafood restaurant weren't taken for granted, I'd support that too.

Comments

[agonistes]

Thank you.

Many people don't seem to realize that marriage is not the issue at hand; fair treatment is the issue at hand. The optimal solution to this would be to make it so that under the eyes of the United States government, homosexual and heterosexual civil unions granted the same rights as marriage does right now -- effectively making it so that no one, federally, has a marriage. Marriages are a matter for religion, and just as religious morality shouldn't inform access to rights for thousands upon thousands of citizens, neither should the government seek to regulate religious belief that drives that morality.

Also, thank you for changing the wording to this meme, because the way it's been copy-pasted sticks in my craw. I don't plan to post it, but that doesn't mean I'm anti-gay rights. It just means I don't like memes.

*offers mango*

*and uses most inappropriate icon possible*