Marriage

With a 4-3 decision the Connecticut supreme court ruled this past week in favor of gay-marriage. Connecticut is the 3rd state to allow same sex couples to marry with New York recognizing marriages from other states.

However, there are many dissenters, among them Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut who quoted in the New York Times says, “This is about our right to govern ourselves,' he said. 'It is bigger than gay marriage.”

Wolfgang is right. We should have the right to govern ourselves and the ruling proves it. It's called equality. The majority does not have the right to govern the morality of a minority. It's Civil liberties. One of them is sexual freedom.

Why do all these sanctity of marriage freaks use names like the Family Institute of Connecticut? If MIT is the Massachusetts institute of Technology than the family institute must be teaching about Connecticut.


In Massachusetts there’s a group called pro-family. The only people that aren’t pro-family are dead beat dad’s, The TV show “Cheaters” and corporations. Pro-family has a website titled Mass Resistance. These people who have difficulty among others with the “Proposed Legal Definition of “Gender Identity or Expression” They say on their website, “Under H1722, who (or what) “identifies” a person’s “gender”? Not an objective outside observer, such as an M.D. or a psychiatric professional or biological fact, but the individual in question.”

That’s a ridiculous thing to say. We’re not talking about a referee (objective observer) in a boxing match between Kirk Cameron and a guy fully dressed in his Barney On Ice costume beating the hell out of each other on Pay Per-View to see who will get to be the center square on Hollywood Squares. We are talking about people who know themselves. If some asshole knows that they are against transgender identity than isn’t it logical someone who is transgender to be able to know their own identity. Gender is a social construct and who better than myself to say who I am.

My boss gave me a handout he received in church after the priest talked about marriage. The pamphlet concerned signing a petition to not allow the “gay marriage” issue into other states like it’s a disease. I would like to paper mache their cars with same-sex information.

The Family institutes website, is of course a .org. That's right they are a non-profit. It seems that anyone can start a non-profit. Even fake non-profits for political causes (I wonder if I could make myself a non-profit and be tax exempt perhaps I need to talk to a lawyer).

The family Institute motto is “At the Family Institute, our mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society and to promote sound, ethical and moral values in our culture and government.” If you’re going to strengthen the family as a foundation then why not allow more families? Moral values in our government? There have been more sex scandals and backroom deals in the government than on “Days of Our Lives” and most TV shows (excluding Jeopardy, that Alex Trebek loves a winner!).

The whole marriage inclusion debate comes down to definitions. The “sanctity” people say they just want to keep the definition of marriage to a woman and a man, but it’s so much more than that. It’s about equal rights. Rights that are not fully given in civil unions. Only marriage offers federal benefits and protections (over 1,100 rights and protections).

Really what’s the big deal? I was always told that marriage is about loving another person. That’s why I got married. Love is ultimately about the person not their body. Besides we as humans don’t always age well, but if I had a dangly double chin or had to lift my gut up to pee, I’m certain my wife would still love me.