I was just curious as to why all the most popular blogs on progressiveu.com have to deal with homosexuality. I know that right now it is a very hot topic. It doesn't appeal to me though as a hot topic. Call me homophobic, even though I think gay people are people as well. (I just don't agree with their lifesytle). It's like someone saying I don't how you go to church or how you obsessively drink alcahol. Which intern would offend the person since they consider going to church and obsessively drinking alcahol as part of who they are. So I understand how I come off offensive, but I this is a free country as Olympia's protest remind us monthly.
Anywho, why are people so interested in topics like homosexuality. Everyone has their own opinions when it comes to this topic and depending on the small percentages of homosexual's actions will deteremine how far they go with rights and all. In Oregon rights for partnership were granted to same-sex couples, but not to straight couples who live together? What!!! Is that not discriminating against straight people, even though were not a minority. It's like having an event and charging less for the deaf and more for hearing. Which is something that has been disccused and decided that was wrong by a higher education institution.
I am just bewildered as to the popularity granted to homosexuality and not issues such as bullying or poverty. Issues that can't be solved by demanding rights, but with progressive solutions that need answeres now.
luv, Monica
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Most blogs is an overstatement. If it's not your issue, don't blog about it.
“I am the King of Rome, and above grammar”
Emperor Sigismund
Two points to make about your blog. The most important one is that it is not discriminatory to not recognize the unmarried partnerships of straight people, because if they want to get recognition as a couple, they already have that right. They can get married. Gay and lesbian couples cannot get married, so civil unions are a compromise. Straight couples don't need the compromise. Now, if gay and lesbian couples were allowed BOTH legal marriage AND civil unions, or whatever the partnership recognition they have in Oregon, and straight couples were only allowed marriage, THAT would be discriminatory.
I don't get where people get the idea that we want "special privileges" or "extra rights." We just want what every other person in the country has.
The other issue I want to address is your spelling, grammar, and habit of leaving words out of sentences. Edit your blogs more carefully, and your position will garner more respect.
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman
I see your point here.
Wait a second though, even though staright couples can get married, what if they dont' want to? What if they just want to live together and get rights as a live-in couple?
They can't that is my point! Many straight people don't want to get married.
Just a thought,
luv, Monica
"What if they just want to live together and get rights as a live-in couple?
They can't that is my point!"
And whose forcing them to?
If they don't want to get married in a religious way, they can get married in front of a judge.
And, that, of course, is the problem with Civil Union. Separate but equal anyone? If heterosexual couples were allowed to have a 'civil union' rather than a marriage, then there is no justification not letting homosexuals marry. And if they are kept separate, then someone will call discrimination.
But, for now heterosexuals shouldn't complain. At least they have the option to get recognized by the government as a couple.
“I am the King of Rome, and above grammar”
Emperor Sigismund
I hardly think that you can convincingly cry "discrimination" when in fact the Oregon Family Fairness Act was passed in response to the fact that Oregon's constitution had been amended to make it impossible for same-sex couples to receive the equal protection of the laws regarding marriage. In a well-meant, but ultimately unconstitutional (IMHO) move (see Brown v. Board of Education for an explanation of why "separate but equal" institutions are unconstituional), the Oregon legislature passed this law to create a "separate but equal" instution to protect those families that are being systematically denied the equal protection of Oregon's marriage laws.
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