Ok, I gotta get three things out regarding all of this same-sex marriage stuff that’s been all over the news lately due to California’s Proposition 8 being ruled unconstitutional and the uproar that followed.

1. Why do God and the Bible continually have to be mentioned? Every time I turn on the news, there’s a video clip on with some old white man talking about how God or the Bible doesn’t approve of same-sex marriage therefore it should be banned. Last time I checked, Christianity wasn’t the ONLY religion. The United States does not have an official religion so why should this one religion be the basis for determining whether same sex-marriages are good or bad? The Bible says so? God says so? What do, say, Buddhists have to say about this? Or does their view not matter because they aren’t Christian? Why does this issue even have to be related to ONE religion? Or ANY religion for that matter? What does religion have anything to do with this? If God created us equal, why would God care about who we married? I thought God was all for happiness? If he really hated gays or lesbians, why would he create them? Not that I necessarily believe in creationism, but I’m just throwing this out there for those Christian-minded people.
2. I’m tired of hearing people say that marriage is a sacred bond between a man and a woman. The same people who say this are also the same people who seem to be the ones prone to getting caught up in affairs (funny, too, that these people are usually old white men as well). If marriage is so sacred to you, how do you explain cheating on your wife? And how do you explain that about half of all marriages in the US end in divorce? Maybe I don’t understand what the word sacred means, but I never thought it meant cheating and divorce.
3. Conservatives are the ones who seem to have the biggest issue with same sex marriage. Conservatives – those people who are continually going on and on about freedom and how Obama and the liberals are taking away their freedom. Freedom, you say? Wouldn’t freedom mean then the freedom to choose who you want to marry? Or is their a limitation on freedom in this regard? Why is it that the same people who are always spewing off about freedom are the ones who are the quickest to try to take others’ freedom away?

I honestly don’t see what the big deal is. What is so hard about just letting people lead their own lives and make their own decisions? If you want to own a gun, you have a right to do that. If you want to rant about how much you hate the president, you have the right to do that. If you want to marry someone of the same sex, why can’t that be a right, too? Why do we have to argue about something that ultimately boils down to the love that two people share for each other?