Proposition 2

Last night, the phone rang and I got to listen to the recorded message from the folks at Save Texas Marriage. I find their approach quite amusing -- they probably actually have a point about the wording of the proposed amendment, but I have a hard time seeing a Texas judge interpret it literaly. Beside, the reason I'm against the amendment is not because I feel that my marriage would become invalid.

On the other hand, the Families Matter video from No Nonsense in November exactly expresses how I feel about the issue. The proposed amendment would encode discrimination into Texas' Bill of Rights without making gay marriage in Texas any more illegal than it already is. The amendment is not about defining what the term "marriage" means -- it's about preventing any sort of benefits that many of us take for granted (domestic partner insurance, for example).

In my view, the whole protecting the "sanctity of marriage" is pure BS and hypocrisy. I don't see how two commited people marrying would affect my marriage in one way or another -- except maybe as a positive example of mutual and lifelong devotion. How many of the vocal advocates of the amendment are on their 2nd and 3rd marriages? I betcha there are quite a few and I doubt that many of those breakups were caused by some random gay couples trying to make their lives together.