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Thread #72325   Message #1247834
Posted By: GUEST,fred miller
14-Aug-04 - 10:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
Subject: RE: BS: Why you don't like gay marriage
Akenaton, seriously, I think that's just a pop-culture fad that probably has the same agenda as any other, to be watched, to be talked about, to be the happening thing. I'm not sure gays conceived it produced it or care if they did or not, I don't get around to watching it. Ellen Degeneres probably sparked the trend, and t.v. execs play it out til it's very very tired, like anything else they do. What's the agenda behind big doofus guys married to cute smart women in sit-coms? What's the agenda behind pro-wrestling? It's just t.v. I think.

I really can't muster much opinion on this, but I find it interesting how much feeling there is, and enjoy the posts. Anybody can challenge the logic of people's feelings, like the bible consistency argument in the first post, but robot-logic may be misplaced, and sound petulant and childish. Sexism is rampant in nature, so does the natural-heterosexual argument lend itself to "natural" male dominance? Who really cares if it does? Screw it.
   Do we have to have opinions about everything? Do we have to believe that, say, all races are equal? I'm supposed to think that, I've heard. Can I just not care whether they are or not--what would I do with that information if I had the omniscience to really have it? Nothing much, nothing practical. I believe as a matter of will, as the only sane decision of human policy, that's all.
   I don't care if homosexuality is a choice or hereditary, if someone who feels it tells me one, then the other, I'll take their word every time, either way, and I don't have to like it or dislike it. I'm a little more interested in my own pathological hetero issues and obsessions--that stuff I have to deal with. What don't you like about straight marriage?