I know that sounds like an ideal world to right-wing religious nuts and Tea Baggers, but normal people want to live in a world that reflects the progress we’ve made as a society over the past 50 centuries.

There is still a lot of hostility toward blacks in America because, unfortunately, skin color cannot be changed. Someone who sees a black male, for example, instantly has preconceived notions about blacks mostly due to negative press. Too often black men are still seen as shiftless, lazy, unintelligent gangsters or thugs. Black women are either viewed as abusive welfare queens sucking the “system” dry with their myriads of kids, whores, or angry, higher-than-thou b***ches with attitudes. These stereotypes have persisted despite all the hype about diversity. America is STILL a racist country and blacks and people of color are STILL at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder across every spectrum.
America may finally be warming up to the idea that gays are people of worth and value and should be accorded all rights due them. This country would be truly ideal if, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, all people were “judged by the content of their character” and not by their skin color or sexual orientation.

Just my 2¢, for what it’s worth…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/16/mixed-race-couple-marriage-licence

http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project

I like this article. Whenever some idiot says something anti-gay I like to bring up how my marriage might not have been legal in GA a little over 40 years ago.

That’s because Mormon’s aren’t as equally spread out across America (mostly centred in Utah) as homosexuals, therefore there isn’t an equal chance for people of other orientations to get to know them.

Governments shouldn’t be granting or be involved with ANY kind of marriage. Marriage should be a contract between or among two or more consenting individuals. If they want to involve the church or the Masons or a goat, that’s up to them (and the goat).

The problem is that governments have been using things like marriage licenses to shape human behavior and pander to it’s dumbest constituents (for example people who hold any kind of religious belief whatsoever) ever since the first Neanderthal neighborhood association. Want this tax break? Gotta’ be married. Want a judge to grant you custody of a child when your partner dies? Better be married. And on and on.

What about all of the other thousands of contracts you involve yourself with in your lifetime? Why shouldn’t they be on record in your state capitol. For that matter, why just state governments? Should your car lease be approved by your county, state or federal government? Why not the United Nations? Why not all of the above? What’s so special about marriage (other than that it’s a convenient way to coerce people.)

And not to get all Carl Sagan on you, but there’s probably an even bigger government out there somewhere that has a way to approve your marriage. Keep in mind though, they might have more than just two measly genders. Are you sure your marriage is legal on Zebulon-Pike?

Sorry to be all radical. I’d just like to be able to go through life with fewer permission slips from the Great Hall Monitor.

And would you believe that my spouse and I are of different races. It’s true. You can continue to pin “RACIST” on me, if you like. And, hey, if you count “stupid” as a race, I’m about as smart-power as they get. (”They keep lettin’ them Idiotos in frum Dumbfukistan, takin’ all our GOOD jobs. An’ thuh pres-ee-dent, he a ain’t nuthin’ but gal-dern Stupidito…”, etc and so forth.)