Seems to me that the people pushing this initiative aren't actually against non-procreating marriages. They're against the non-procreative nature of gay marriage being used as a smokescreen to hide the real reason that right-wingnuts are against gay mariage - pure bigotry.
But they can't come right out and say "We just don't like gays", so they have to manufacture excuses as to why they don't want gays to marry (such as the fact that gay people cannot procreate by themselves). Looks like gay marriage activists are giving these people a taste of thier own medicine.
I'd say it's neither funny nor foul. It's sad that gay-rights activists have to go to these extremes just to make a point.
I don't think that gay-rights activists have to go to this extreme. I think it is wasting tax dolors and offending people that would support them- like myself. I am in full support of gay marriage, but I cannot have children. I was ticked off when I read this article.
You're right, it is a terrible use of tax dollars. i wouldn't get too wrapped up in the initiative itself, because I think those pushing are not trying to get it passed so much as getting thier point across.
Not to mention, it's got a snowballs chance in hell of actually getting through.
What measures would you suggest these activists take, if not the ones they're taking with this initiative? My solution would be to vote out right-wingnuts in favor of libertarian candidates. Of course, that's easier said than done. Probably easier to push a rediculous initiative than to vote the righties out. But I can't think of any other solution that would work.
So long as the legisature is so heavily influenced by the religious right, we are going to have rediculous laws, and the vicims of these laws will be going to rediculous extremes to fight them, I guess.
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But they can't come right out and say "We just don't like gays", so they have to manufacture excuses as to why they don't want gays to marry (such as the fact that gay people cannot procreate by themselves). Looks like gay marriage activists are giving these people a taste of thier own medicine.
I'd say it's neither funny nor foul. It's sad that gay-rights activists have to go to these extremes just to make a point.
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Not to mention, it's got a snowballs chance in hell of actually getting through.
What measures would you suggest these activists take, if not the ones they're taking with this initiative? My solution would be to vote out right-wingnuts in favor of libertarian candidates. Of course, that's easier said than done. Probably easier to push a rediculous initiative than to vote the righties out. But I can't think of any other solution that would work.
So long as the legisature is so heavily influenced by the religious right, we are going to have rediculous laws, and the vicims of these laws will be going to rediculous extremes to fight them, I guess.
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