Entertainment - Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:01 - 29 Comments

Plz STFU About the Passing of Proposition 8

First of all, if there’s anything that my generation is as excited about as Barack Obama being elected president, it’s Proposition 8 passing. Finally—finally!—we have an “injustice” of our own to bitch about. For so long now, we’ve been obedient sons without causes; now we can all be rebels with Facebook petitions. And boy have we taken advantage of the opportunity.

I was rather indifferent to the idea of gay marriage—God knows nobody’s putting anything on this finger—before Andrew Sullivan changed my mind. The arguments about so and so’s partner being sick and mumblings about tax breaks never really choked me up. The off-chance that one’s gay lover ends up in the hospital and his/her family doesn’t let you visit him/her just didn’t seem like an argument worthy of shaking up the foundations of mankind: that man and woman belong together.

However, Sullivan’s moving explanation of the symbolic significance of legalizing gay marriage changed my perspective. To tolerate homosexual love, for the sake of all the sad, young, closeted men and their families seemed valid. To stop people from hating homosexuals and start realizing that gay relationships are as legitimate as the next (which isn’t saying much) and allow gay men and women to celebrate their choices with their families in a state-sponsored way—why not? Continue…