Once again the religious minions come out in force against gay rights. Papoy!

This week the Saskatchewan court of appeals ruled that the provincial marriage commissioners could not opt out of giving a marriage licence or performing the ceremony for state run marriages for same sex couples because of religious beliefs. Well, I live in Canada, our land glorious and free, and I am surprisingly, and naively, appalled by the number of comments on the news stations’ comment boards that are in support of the exemptions for religious folk.

First of all, I want to make it plainly clear that being gay is not a choice. If I had the choice of being persecuted and discriminated against for being who I am versus living a life free of discrimination, what do you think I would choose?? Yeah, when I was 12, I decided that I would love a life where I could not hold my love’s hand in public, where I could be threatened with death for giving a peck on the cheek of my life partner as we say goodbye on the metro in the morning, where I could make no life and death decisions in the hospital for my partner of 20 years because we are not recognized as a couple. I say a big resounding YES, this is a life I would choose for myself. Please use your brains and realize no person would choose this for their life.

I keep hearing arguments about the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman; please, your divorce rate is around 50% or more; sorry, your reasoning is dead in the water.  Another argument states that marriage is for having children, uhm, the last time I checked people are capable of having kids without signing a piece of paper dripping wet with holy water.  Should your marriage be dissolved when you are no longer able to make babies? Are you now useless to the human race because you no longer procreate? Should infertile people be allowed to marry?
In fact, that could be one of society’s biggest problems: all of these uneducated, socially inept straight people are fornicating outside of the sanctity of marriage, creating more uneducated, socially inept morons who perpetuate the myth that being straight is blessed by god, and therefore giving them the right to  give birth to more Billy Bobs and Anna Mays. The average right wing christian is actually quite similar to the Taliban: they want their followers to remain uneducated in order to continue the lies and better control their followers.I personally think that all newborn babies should be reversibly sterilised at birth. I then think that any couple wanting to have children should be psychologically tested and granted licence to have a child and their sterilisation reversed only after said testing. Do you realize how many cases of child abuse we would eliminate? Do you realise how many murders, rapes, and violent crime would no longer exist because of bad upbringing?

If I was god and I had the choice between speaking with a well spoken, creative, intelligent gay individual about the running of the universe, and some redneck offspring of an evangelical minister and his sanctified lay of the week, with the intellectual capacity of a two by four... well I think my choice would include people that add to the world in a positive way, not people who only want to destroy and hate.

I love straight people; I would not be here if it were not for my straight parents! I am just so tired of hearing straight people says “if there is gay pride, why not straight pride?”

Ok, let me get this “straight” there is no straight pride because you have never been killed, abused, harassed, or beaten for being straight!!!! Is that clear enough???

We have, and still are, as is evident by the CBC.CA and CTV.CA (more CTV), message boards, been/being discriminated against on a daily basis because of WHO WE ARE!

 Can I not love the person whom I am meant to love without someone hating me? I hate it when gay or straight people say “It’s not your business what goes on in my bedroom”. Do you really think that being gay is about sex? Being gay is not about sex, it is about the person you love, you want to share your life with, who you want to grow old with. Do you really think that a gay couple after 10, 15, 20 years is thinking only about sex? As a straight couple, do you? A gay couple only wants the same thing as a straight couple: to have a partner who does not cheat, to have a partner that laughs with them, to have a partner who shares their dreams, to have a partner who shares their sorrows. A gay couple wants the exact same things as a straight couple, a gay person wants the exact same thing as a straight person: respect, love, appreciation, and recognition for a life well lived.

And to those who say “I don’t care if you’re gay, just don’t flaunt it or shove it in my face”, I have a question for you: If we are at work together, and you start talking about how you took your wife out for dinner, and then I say that I went to the movies with my partner, is that what you consider shoving it in your face? Is talking about my life flaunting it? I have heard some people say that they don’t talk about being straight, why should gay people talk about being gay. Well let me clear that up for you: every time you talk about your opposite sex spouse, you are talking about being straight!

Is this really an unreasonable request? Is this really asking for “special rights” as some intellectually challenged bible lovers claim?

Remember, karma is an unforgiving bitch: if you hate, if you judge, you will have to explain why.