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[catslash]

Today's cynical thought to grow on:

Marriage does not equal love. Marriage equals the luxury of certain rights, such as insurance stuff (which, to my vague understanding, doesn't necessarily require marriage anymore) and the right to visit your mate in the ICU. The reason why I support gay marriage is because of equality - gays should be allowed to enter into an antiquated institution just like everyone else, dammit.

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That's right. Gay people should be allowed to leap blindly into an ill-advised situation just like straight ones. And the hospital thing, too. I've always been hung up on the hospital thing. It makes me crazy that a straight couple married for six months have the right to visit the ill or injured partner, but a gay couple that have been together for twenty years do not. That is WRONG. Wronger even than the equality issue, for me at least.

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All it proves is that gay people are just as insane as straight people, really. We're fighting for the right to be conventional sticks-in-the-mud. Only somebody completely insane would want that. -laughs-

But the hospital thing...yeah.

I know it's trivial, but I wanted to take my girlfriend to prom last year, and it was just completely out of the question. Which bothered me, because every other person there had a date. Most of whom they didn't know or didn't like or who had been set up with, just for the sake of having a date. Whereas I had somebody I legitimately wanted to bring and I wasn't allowed.

~Anji