30 Days of Truth - Day 18: Your views on gay marriage

Well obviously this one is going to be written from a slightly slanted viewpoint... seeing as how I'm gay.  Therefore i should be for Gay Marriage right?  Well this may get me kicked out of the Pink Parade... but when the debate first came up, I was undecided.  I had a friend, Chuck, who said it didn't have to be marriage... a civil union was fine... so long as all the rights and privileges were still conveyed.  And because this was during my "wishy-washy" phase... I just agreed.

But now looking back... why can't we have gay marriage?  Why can't I have a ceremony just like anyone else instead of having just a set of legal laws to protect me?  And I know that some of you would say "if it's the same thing" but let me put this in front of you...

Two things... identical in design, quality, function... but one I'm not allowed to take advantage of.

Do you know what I'm talking about?  It's not gay marriage. It's restrooms during the civil rights era... one for whites... one for colored persons.  That's the direction gay marriage is heading.  One ceremony for straights... one legal structure for gays...  Do we REALLY want to take a step in that direction as a country?

Cynically Challenged

Sometimes I think my office mate has some SERIOUS issues up top. He flies off the handle so easily and when he does it's so extreme that the rest of us are wondering where he's getting all this stuff from. Like just now, we received a letter from one of our partners that listed some approved products and what not. It was just their normal monthly email listing any changes.

Well Binky over here flies all off the handle thinking they are trying to screw us because some products aren't approved...products that we specialize in...and that this email is just a slap in the face from them. In fact, the products are in the system and just haven't made it to public consumption yet...but binky over here is thinking they're deliberately sending out emails to us that they are NOT going to approve them.

And he gets so cynical about everything. He thinks everyone is trying to screw us over and that everyone we try to do business with is just out to abuse us. And unfortunately, he's our first line of marketing... not a good face to be putting up front...