In response to Robin’s blog
Current mood: 
annoyed
I have a problem with amending the constitution to ban any single group of people from doing something other people are allowed to do simply because they’re different from the moronic majority. Look at how we look at mixed race couples. 20 years ago, that was a big deal, now nearly everyone has at least dated someone who wasn’t out of the same mold. Just think, the children today are going to think we’re all a bunch of bigotted idiots when they’re adults and able to marry whoever they want.
Here are my main concerns:
1. What do you do if your gay partner has to go to the hospital? As a “friend” you can’t see them in icu. You can’t make any decisions about their health care. You are powerless! What if they were disowned when they came out. Now they have no one. Thanks, Tennessee (among others).
2. What’s to keep states from refusing to allow gay couples to adopt? What’s to keep them from removing legitimate children, born from one of the pair? People say “by allowing gay marriage, you’re opening the floodgates to marrying animals, children, relatives, and multiple partners.” I call shenanigans! By denying it, you’re opening the floodgates to more bigotry and descrimination. If marriage is currently only allowed between 1 man and 1 woman, who’s to say it couldn’t become 1 white man and 1 white woman of matching socio-economic class, religious heritage and ancestry? Bigotry breeds bigotry and acceptance breeds peace.
3. (and this one is a little selfish) I’m a wedding photographer. By not allowing gay couples to marry, you have now limited the consumer base of all wedding professionals. Thus it is bad for small businesses (there are a lot of wedding professionals out there).
I do school portraits for a small, private school in Atlanta. There are gay parents there as well as straight parents. All of the kids seem to be very well adjusted, intelligent, and sweet dispositioned. There is no reason to limit who is legally allowed to declare their love. In this age of rising divorce, I would think we should want to encourage stable relationships between loving couples.
