Legislated Discrimination or Poor Grammar? Where do you stand on 8?
Our neighbor and I were talking tonight and although I hate to admit it, because I don’t think we’re too backwater, he’s a little bit white trash. We don’t have a ton to talk about so I brought up Proposition 8. Figured we’re both around 40, middle class, white men, we should be able to at least talk about this without anyone getting too ignorant. Boy, was I wrong.
I’m against Proposition 8 – let people marry who they want. He’s for it – believes there’s something wrong with the law. Figuring that didn’t make much sense I asked, “what do you think is wrong with the law?” Now, I’m not much of a legal mind, but his response saying “it’s not written correctly” sounded odd to me. He’s married to a Fillipino, so I added in there, “how would you feel if they said you couldn’t stay married to your wife because she’s not the same race?”
He paused for a minute and said, “I’m still voting for Prop 8, because it’s not written right.” Now I was getting a little frustrated – this didn’t make sense to me. We’re not even talking about writing a law here we’re talking about repealing a law that’s already been written. So, I asked my question again, “seems like a stupid response considering how its written isn’t the point. Are you voting to legislate discrimination or not?”
His response: “It’s not written right – marriage is between a man and a woman.” After that and my comment about the next change being race related we parted ways and finished our Trick or Treating with the kids separately. How do you feel?
Ranter
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