"If you’re straight, you’ve always known you can get married if and
whenever you damn well please, and so maybe it doesn’t seem like such a
big deal to you. Or maybe, no matter what your sexual orientation, you
just think marriage is a BS heterosexist institution anyway, so no one
should be fighting for it.
Well, I’ll give you that: Marriage was
created as a heterosexist and sexist institution,
and has been perpetuated in that vein for decades. But (a) if things
like work, dating, child-rearing, and computer programming can be
transformed to be more inclusive, so can marriage; and (b) whatever—this
isn’t actually about marriage, this is about recognizing gay people as equal to straight people.
Seeing us as full people. People as good as anybody else.
You can, as a
straight person, get married by going through a drive-thru chapel in
Vegas, you can get and stay married for exactly 55 hours,
and that’s still considered a legal, valid marriage.
If straight people
have access to a silly retrograde tradition, so should we."
by Krista
