March 15, 2005

Couples Hopeful in California

A California court overturned the state's gay marriage ban as unconstitutional. This SF Chronicle article included some local reaction:

... Meanwhile, a heterosexual couple -- Francisco and Irma Villanueva -- were enjoying their right to marry one floor down, at the top of the grand staircase on the second floor.

Francisco Villanueva, 37, said he saw no reason that gay and lesbian couples should be denied marriage certificates.

"If they choose that path, to have something more serious with their true love and have the benefits of marriage, they should be able to," he said shortly after becoming a husband himself. "Anyway, they're already living it." ...

Wow, a heterosexual couple bravely deciding to get married even though they know that any day, gay people might get the exact same right ;)

The way the far right talks about gay people, you'd think that just hearing they were allowed to live in peace like everybody else was enough to make everyone run off and join them. That's a pretty attractive lifestyle if it's a threat to someone's inborn sexual preference, but if it wasn't ... well, I can only imagine how many closet cases are running around dead certain that everyone else shares their secret desire to be openly gay.

I, otoh, can just be happy knowing that some friends of mine might one day get the same right to marry as any pair of stupid drunk heterosexual 18-year olds on a fling in Vegas. I suspect my friends will appreciate it quite a bit more.

Posted by natasha at March 15, 2005 09:19 AM | GLBT | Technorati links |
Comments

natasha, you have put your finger on the entire motivation for the hardly-ever-right with this sentence:

well, i can only imagine how many closet cases are running around dead certain that everyone else shares their secret desire to be openly gay.

only bisexuals who are attracted to both sexes need to worry which one is more exciting in bed.

Posted by: skippy at March 16, 2005 08:49 AM