4 and 1/2 Years Later and Our Society Hasn’t Collapsed
As I was driving in to work this morning, the subject of gay marriage suddenly popped into my head. I’m not sure why, exactly, but as I maneuvered my car down Gateway Boulevard I found myself thinking, “Huh…gay marriage has been legal in Canada for several years now; no one really bitches about it anymore and life has continued like normal for most people.”
That’s right, gay marriage did not destroy Canada.
Many of my regular readers will, of course, be reading this and thinking, “Of course it didn’t. Why the hell would it?” And I, of course, would agree with those thoughts.
A lot of people, however, thought that legalizing same-sex marriage would herald the beginning of the Apocalypse. God would look down upon the Earth and see that we had become sodomites worthy of nothing short of death. The world would split open and hellfire would consume Canada.
Instead, what happened was, well, basically nothing. Life changed for no one except those gay couples who could now get married if they wanted to.
For everyone else, things went on as normal. I think that all but the most ardent opponents of same-sex marriage must have realized this, because I can’t remember the last time I heard a Canadian complain about the legalization of gay marriage.
I mention all of this because it seems that every few weeks another US state passes a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. (Those damn activist judges can’t say that banning gay marriage is unconstitutional if we change the constitution!)
For some reason, a significant number of Americans just can’t get around the fact that gay people want to get married. That just blows their minds. And because they don’t understand it—or maybe they do but they think that butt-sex is icky—they decide to make it illegal.
Well, my American friends, I suggest you look north. Look at us here in Canada before you continue to discriminate against your gay brothers and sisters. Never mind that gay people are pretty much the same as everyone else. Hate on them if you must. But don’t stop them from getting married.
What two people who are strangers to you decide to do with their lives is none of your business. It doesn’t affect your life in any way. The fact that gay marriage hasn’t destroyed Canadian society is proof of that.
Nor has society crumbled in any of the states in the U.S. that permit same-sex marriage. Still, people will fight it until their dying breath. What a sad waste of energy.
They could also look to the Netherlands as proof of that, but since (apparently) most Americans seem to think we are all criminal drug-users/dealers and freaks (I’m none of those)…
Mind you, I don’t think our society has collapsed either and if people want to be happy, who would I be to tell them no?
Thanks for your comment, Mara. I suppose that those Americans who are opposed to gay marriage could look to any country that has legalized it as an example of what does (or doesn’t) happen as a result. But, as a Canadian, I can really only write from a Canadian perspective.
Tonya, thanks for you comment. I apologize for taking so long to approve it. It got filtered out but Akismet, for some reason, so I only saw it this morning as I checked my spam folder.