Cross-posted from Fundamentally Flawed , where I intend to keep mocking the opponents of marriage equality for as long as I keep fighting them. Come on over and laugh as we lick our wounds....
"I know there may have been differences in the past between you pro-gay marriage people and us prop 8 'bigots.' And I know your feelings may be hurt, but get it over with....the people have spoken. Can't we all just be friends now?" --reader comment in the Sacramento Bee
I'm afraid not. Although we certainly don't hate you, and we're magnanimous enough to tolerate your choice of a bigoted lifestyle, we can't allow you to call yourselves our "friends." You see, for centuries the word "friendship" has denoted a relationship between mutually supportive people who would not deny each other's fundamental rights and freedoms, and we can't let you radically redefine such a sacred institution. (If we start down that slippery slope , next thing we know, you'll want to be "friends" with your iPod or your ficus tree! What's stopping you?) And most importantly, we refuse to let you teach your perverted concept of "friendship" to our children. Find another word , please.
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Shorter reader comment: "Can't I be your friend even though I think you're subhuman?"
Yeah, I can see why that would piss people off.
You can't be friends with someone when you've just voted to take away fundamental rights that you have kept for yourself. If they'd voted for a proposition that eliminated *all* marriage in California, then you could call them "my friend the moron", because at least then they wouldn't be singling you out. But no, if they singled out gays as the group to be excluded from marriage, gays are not going to want to be their friends any time real soon. That's the way it works.
One problem with your analogy: redefining "marriage" to include any two people in love doesn't actually significantly impact the value or import of marriage, whereas redefining "friendship" to mean people who take away your rights would actually destroy the word far more thoroughly than they even they claimed gay marriage would destroy marriage. So you're accusing them of trying to do what they claimed you were trying to do, except they really *are* doing it and you're not. Hurts the snark just a little.
Other than that, thanks for posting this.
Yep, that was kind of the point. :) The opponents of equality are destroying society far more efficiently than The Gays possibly could, and they don't remotely understand that.
Why would we want to be friends with such people? It kind of disgusts me to see that in print considering that the writer also refers to "you pro-gay marriage people". What the hell is that? Seriously. Pro-gay marriage defenders will never end up being "friends" with those who oppose the right to enter into a lifelong commitment with the partner of their choice. And it's ridiculous for that person to even begin to think that something like that would happen at any point in the near future.