I’ve been reading a discussion concerning whether Congress should pass legislation defining marriage between one man and one women only at vote.com. The discussion is all over the place, but gay marriage is taking up a lot of space. Here is a comment from one of the posters asking those opposed to gay marriage what we should then do:
“I have to wonder how you want gay people to live:
+ Shacking up with their lover?
+ Marrying an unsuspecting heterosexual in order to be respectable to family and society?
+ Lesbians marrying gay men in order to have a family?
+ Lesbians marrying gay men in order to have marriage benefits and having real lovers they live with?
+ Gay men marrying God in order to conceal their homosexuality as a celibate priest?
+ Remaining celibate and in the closet?
+ Remaining celibate and being an anti-gay zealot?
+ Being married to a heterosexual while being homosexually-promiscuous on the side?
+ Having an entirely promiscuous lifestyle and believing that since society hates gays (and suspected gays) so much then why wait for monogamy or any other responsible lifestyle?
+ Be content knowing that your lack of legal monogamy is keeping the fragile institution of heterosexual marriage from completely dissolving?
+ What would you do if you were a homosexual who wanted to live the rest of your life with the person you loved yet legally couldn’t?”
I think the questions are great! What DO they want us to do, aside from just deciding not to be gay any more or being healed of “Same-Sex Attraction Disorder?” Those two options come, of course, only from the Religious Right. I suppose there is no option for non-religious gay people.