Georgie W. Bush loves Jesus H. Christ. Jesus loves you, unless you’re gay. Therefore if Jesus does not love you, then it correlates that Georgie doesn’t love you either.

Georgie loves logic. Right?

Well…maybe not as much as he loves Jesus, and the money and votes thrown his way by other people that love Jesus, too.

Georgie wants to regulate who you can and cannot legally love. But why?

I get that he’s pushing this constitutional amendment because he believes in it, and I get why some people don’t believe in gay marriage. I don’t happen to agree with them, but I live in America, so theoretically it’s all fine. We’re allowed to debate and even disagree here, and it doesn’t mean that someone is trying to step on your First Amendment rights. (Even though anyone who has spent any time in an online fandom has certainly heard that argument thrown around a time or ten. Even though the Internet does not = American jurisdiction, but whatever, that’s a different argument.)

What I do not understand is why this needs to be a constitutional amendment! Don’t we have bigger problems right now besides all those happy gay couples on their honeymoons right now having all the sinful huhudilly? Shouldn’t outsourcing of jobs, health care, or even ANYTHING else come first? It’s all just such a political move to show he’s a good Christian before a damn election.

Something else I don’t get is that he’s a Republican, supposedly interested in smaller government and less day-to-day regulation of citizen’s daily lives. Why is it so important to know what people are doing with their hands, tongues, vaginas, and penises? I certainly don’t want to know anything about what most politicians do with their bits and pieces.

What freaks me out is that he (and no one else that helps prep him) has not done his homework. Marriage has only been a religious sacrament since about 1215. That means that Georgie’s ol’ buddy Jesus had nothing to do or say about the matter most likely.

Marriages were also arranged for the benefit of the family and as a way to hand down property. Only in the past few hundred years has it been about love. And really, doesn’t it all boil down to love at this point? If two men or two women want to love each other, the government has no business getting involved at all. In the past the argument has been that marriage and family was all about producing children and passing on beliefs (such as religion!) and that gay couples could not do that. Well, clearly the technology has made this argument obsolete. Gay couples are having children, just not through conventional means. Some places even let them adopt!

Until the fourteenth century, churches performed the rite of adelphopoiesis which joined two men or two women in a bond of brotherhood or sisterhood. While it can be debated this these were or were not “gay marriages,” the fact remains that a sacrament did exist to bond two people together of the same sex under God. With translations being as tricky as they are, and with words changing meanings over time, we may never know. This has never stopped anyone from taking the word of the bible as literal fact, however.

There are also recorded histories of gay marriages in Native American society and throughout premodern Europe. As recently as the late 1800s, some gay marriages in the UK were presided over by a reverend. But all this is really beside the point.

Interracial marriage was not nationally recognized as legal by all the states until 1967. Slavery was legal. Women weren’t legally allowed to vote until 1920. Some laws still exist that say a man who rapes his wife cannot be charged with rape since it’s within his legal rights to have sex with his wife, however he chooses to do so. The law, it would seem, is not always our friend and our civil rights are not always taken into account unless we fight back for them.

“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.”——George Washington, 1790.

This is a civil rights issue, regardless of your personal religious beliefs. If two people want to conduct themselves in a manner that has no bearing on you, and does no harm of anykind to anyone else, it is their constitutional right to do so.