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Monday, Jun. 16, 2008 @ 10:21 p.m.

Today, at 5:01pm, California became the second state in the US to officially issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Wow. I am so glad that I'm alive to see this day. At the same time, I wish that couples that didn't live to see this day could have been around to share the joy with the rest of us.

Although some licenses were issued today, tomorrow is probably when the bulk of the rush will occur. Tents dressed in white satin and silk have popped up all over West Hollywood Park, ready to perform officiating ceremonies all of tomorrow, first come, first served. I'll be having lunch with my friend Rachel at The Abbey tomorrow afternoon, which is located right next to West Hollywood Park... so we'll be able to witness history in the making first-hand. I'm excited.

Of course, whether or not the licenses issued starting today to same-sex couples will continue to be valid past the November elections is another question altogether. Thanks to conservative losers who have nothing better to do than to poke their holier-than-thou noses into other peoples' affairs, Californians will vote on a proposed ban on same-sex marriages, restricting marriage to only be possible between a man and a woman.

I hope that Californians will see between now and then that having married gay couples doesn't impact society negatively. There's no fire and brimstone raining down from the skies. There's no deadly plague of locusts. In fact, analysts estimate a huge boost to the economy in gay weddings, which comes in a much-needed time. And when voters step into the booths in November, they'll hopefully be without sticks up their arses.

I'm slightly pessimistic, though. Because... how can the majority support the causes of the minority? I know it's happened before, but it's always been as difficult as squeezing blood out of a stone. If you leave the fate of the minority in the hands of the apathetic majority, and if majority rules, how can the minority ever get what they deserve? If you're asked to vote on an issue that doesn't affect you and you don't really give a rat's arse about, what motivation do you have to feel like you should vote for the minority? Most apathetic voters probably won't even vote, leaving the power to the ignorant religious idiots, who probably outnumber the population of same-sex couples and their allies. The possibility that marriage licenses issued between now and November will become null and void is, unfortunately, a very real one.

I hope that I'm wrong. I really do. Look at Massachusetts, people. Nothing catastrophic happening over there ever since they legalized same-sex marriages. The very fabric of reality hasn't been torn asunder. The rivers and seas didn't turn into blood.

It really pisses me off how the damn conservatives try to argue against legalizing same-sex marriage. If they actually put forward good, solid, logical arguments, then they'd actually have a leg to stand on. But noooo... it's all about "god" and "jesus". I really don't understand why their views should be taken seriously in the first place. There's supposed to be a separation between church and state. In other words, religiously-based arguments are worth absolutely nothing in a legal hearing. "Because the bible says so" is not an acceptable closing argument. But yet, their views are somehow actually being heard and substantiated. HOW?!?!???? I guess I'd need to learn more about the law to figure that out, but I don't think it'll make things any less ridiculous.

If you take away all the religiously grounded dogma, what other arguments do they have against gay marriage? I honestly couldn't think of one. And no, "Because I think it's gross" doesn't hold any water. Lots of people find cockroaches to be very "gross".

Wanna draft up an initiative to ban all cockroaches in the US?

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