Ok, let me start by saying in the interest of full disclosure. I’m not gay. Nor am I a dinosaur. I do, however, have a gay brother. I’m also a believer in god, though I belong to no organized religion. I’m not pro gay, in fact I’ve told my brother about my distaste for his life choice. I believe it is just that, a choice. But, no matter what, I don’t believe anyone should be punished or persecuted for a life choice. I don’t have to like it, but I do have to respect any reasonable desire of a human being so long as it doesn’t harm or endanger other people. Gay marriage does not harm anyone at all except perhaps the IRS and insurance providers.
For the uninformed, Proposition 8 was a measure brought before voters in the state of California to ban gay marriage. Why? Well, because the state supreme court decided that there was no rule anywhere in the law that said only members of the opposite sex could be married. So, gay couples that were married in San Francisco were allowed to stay married and receive all the rights of a married couple.
Outraged, religious groups began lobbying the state government and poured large amounts of resources into getting a proposition to voters to add an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage. Despite the violation to the United States Constitution that states there must always be a “separation of church and State,” law makers allowed the proposition to go to a vote. With all the lobbying on both sides of the argument, the bigots won a victory against human rights on November 4th 2008.
The first thing that comes to mind here is “how they hell did that even get to a vote?” I don’t know, and I don’t care. But every politician and lawyer that was involved in that should be removed from office and disbarred. Politicians take an oath to uphold the constitution when they are sworn into office and every one of them violated that oath. Lawyers have an obligation to the law as it interpreted. People using their office for religious purposes is despicable. Religion drove the politics of the middle ages and many horrible things happened ; it seems that nobody pays attention to that anymore.
There are a great many number of arguments against gay marriage. Almost all of them related to religion. And those that aren’t are related to money. But in the end it simply comes down to a bunch of stupid people that have nothing better to do than push themselves onto other people. As far as I can tell, there’s really only one way to get rid of large amounts of stupid people; natural selection.
Humans have no natural predators and with diseases being cured all the time and wars becoming very infrequent, there are simply too many people out there to educate properly. That being said, the only thing worse than a complete idiot is a half educated person, people that know enough to speak but not enough to make informed decisions. This is the majority of the world at this point. Humans are a very frail species and the only thing that gave us an edge on the food chain was our wit and team work abilities. Now.. imagine if human beings had some predators. Our greatest strength would be our intelligence, and as such the weakest link would be our stupid people. Natural selection rids us of the worst of our kind. Which brings me to our final solution; dinosaurs.
Now, I realize it’s funny. And it’s supposed to be. Dinosaurs being on this planet would drastically change how the human race survived. Hoodlums from ‘da hood’ would try to act tough with a raptor and would get eaten alive. Score one for the human race. Stupid people would die in droves and genetics would take over. Of course there would be some stupid people that survived, which would be ok. Balance is needed. But in a world(especially in our country) where everything is planned for stupid people, this is the only real recourse that we have. I’m serious.. I get teary eyed when I watch Jurassic park 2. Not because it sucked so bad(which it did), but because it’s my dream to watch a T-Rex tear through the U.S. Now please don’t mistake this for an approval of terrorism. I’m simply talking about natural selection at work.
Now I know this isn’t going to happen. But I think that’s the best place to start is to let disease and hunger take their place among the world and get rid of some dead weight. Human rights is one thing, let men earn their right to live how they want. But if they can’t cut it, there’s no reason to lower the curve for them.
This is my question for you all: Why do you think humans do things like passing Prop 8? And what would you do to make sure that a gross violation of rights doesn’t happen in our country again?
Please post your responses in the comments below.
