"I did not complain when they came for the jews, I did not complain when they came for the Slavs, I did not complain when they Came for the poles. But when they came for me there was nobody left to defend me."
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Well, the bastards did it. The rabid fundamentalists and sexually insecure closet homosexuals that pretend they know what they're doing up at the helm of this operation have finally outlawed gay marriage at a federal level. If it wasn't enough to bow over to the US in terms of letting it dictate Australian domestic policy and then allowing that to be encouraged through the new Free Trade agreement. The damn bastards would love to have us all wandering the streets with cricket bats and broken bottles looking for poofs, because obviously that's what sensible heterosexuals do.
Don't make me sick. Marriage is nothing more than an intrusion of the state into people's private affairs (speaking as someone about to be married I'm keenly aware of that) moreover the fact that so few people honour their vows these days you tend to get the feeling it's an institution about as sacred as "cloud nine escorts." We claim to be civilised yet we are still (on the whole) neophobes. We deride people who stand up for their beleifs and stamp on the people who would dare fly in the face of outdated conservativism and demand fair treatment.
Now, I'm not even gay, I'm not even bi. The overwhelming majority of the male population will not make me turn my head, but I'll be damned if I ever let the idea of ordinary people having sex have me campaigning to have their freedom to be recognised as a couple by the world taken away.
Ordinary people! that's right. They're not physically defective, mentally unblanced, unholy, unclean, dirty individuals. They're your co-workers, shop assistants, friends, relatives, siblings and public servants.
Homophobia is just another form of intolerance. No different to religious or racial intolerance. But it seems while it's not OK for governments in the western world to outlaw blacks or asians from getting married, it's AOK to do the same thing to gays.
But if we're intent on retaining our purity as the master race why haven't we done anything about it? Oh that's right! The Nazi's lost WWII. You could have fucking fooled me! What next? Brainwashing camps? Deprogramming centers and interventions? are we going to bring back the purple triangle? well excuse me for realising that unless I do something now there'll be nobody left to come to my aid when they come for the discordians.
All rights are wrongs. We rest under the thumb of an entity with the peevishness of a 4 year-old with ADD that has yet to realise it holds our fates and lives in it's hands. We have the right to free speech, but for how long? We have the right to practice whatever faith we wish, but for how long? How long before we reach a state of total social equilibrium? The mental equivalent of heat-death, nothing ever changes, nothing new is ever created. There we will be, existing in circles, defining ourselves as people who exist to define ourselves. Every right is a wrong. Rights are the things we refuse to give away to dictators in disguise. An oddly anarchic sentiment, but it's true. I don't believe in rights, I can do what I want to do and deal with the consequnces. Right now I'd like to send a letter to the PM telling him that if he's going to outlaw gay marriage then he should also be repressing every other minority as well.
