Letter to the Boston Metro

[juldea]

In recent days, both President Bush and Governor Romney have attempted
to make a case for defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman
on the grounds that marriage exists mainly for creating and raising
children. This platform is a slap in the face to the thousands if not
millions of childless or childfree couples in the United States. Many
married couples either choose not to have children or physically
cannot, and the current rhetoric insinuates that their marriages lose
validity because of a lack of offspring in their lives. An infertile
couple is no different with regards to procreation than a homosexual
couple - and yet I see no section of this amendment requiring
prospective spouses to prove their fertility in order to receive a
marriage license. If the talking heads are going to base the
definition of marriage on ability to breed, logic dictates they take a
stand against childless couples as well as homosexual couples.
Choosing to exclude only one of these groups without mentioning the
other simply makes obvious the true agenda behind the exclusion - a
veiled attempt to lower a segment of our population to second-class
status simply because of whom they love.

My Name
Somerville, MA
Contracts Administrator
26 years old

Comments

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Select parts of MA are a liberal bastion, but we have our fare share of Republicans andor religious fundimentalists.

Charm and politeness don't work? Could've fooled me...

[starfireming.livejournal.com]

Oh thank God. My SO's mother is from Mass and she clearly believes that charm is not a survival skill(whereas I think it is.) She is a really nice lady and has a lot of energy, but she's like a fish out of water in Virginia. To Virginians, she seems loud and abrasive. She tells me that where she's from you have to speak up for what you want.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Well... no matter WHERE you are, you have to speak up for what you want. This is not incompatible with charm. I guess I'd need examples of her behavior to really understand.

[starfireming.livejournal.com]

Her version of speaking up is demanding, trying to guilt people into doing what she wants them to, and yelling as needed. She is proud of the fact that certain members of the General Assembly cross the street when they see her coming.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Ew. :P I'm sorry.