One of the better pieces I've seen on marriage...

[libertango]

...begins this way:

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History will look no more fondly on the "defenders" of our current marriage laws than it does on the straggler adherents to any other once-entrenched social inequity. Grasp this before you take a side. The arguments formed today will be studied in tomorrow's schools by the smallest children, as elementary examples of how people used to be terrified by the most harmless personal differences, and how even the most fundamental freedoms are only won through heroic dedication and preserved through thankless vigilance and systemic foresight. Your civil rights are not determined by your skin color. Your civil rights are not determined by your gender. Your public rights are not determined by your anatomy or your beliefs. Our moral code aspires to generality. Those who seek to enforce their arbitrarily limited conceptions of marriage on others violate the basic social covenant of modern human society: all people are equal. You are not special. If you fight this premise, you will have to answer to your children and your grandchildren and the historical record for the privileges you tried to hoard, and you will still lose. You will be numbered among the oppressors and fools.

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This is by Glenn McDonald, who writes the spiffy music bloggish thing The War Against Silence.

Comments

[eleanor.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that.

Good comment

[fritz-freiheit.livejournal.com]

The one little nit I would like to pick with this is rather than saying "You are not special." I would say "While we are each special, our specialness is not special." (But this would probably dilute what he is saying.)

I suppose this all falls into the "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."