Just a little more on Prop 8

I just wanted to mention something that I noticed coming up in my comments and on my international flist in general about prop 8. There are countries out there that support some sort of domestic partnership for homosexual couples. While it is a step forward, here in the states we generally do not accept that as an option (at least not within the communities that do not support stuff like Prop 8). It stems from the "separate but equal" line of thinking that we are all too familiar with. If it is going to be separate, it will most likely never be equal, so calling gay marriage a "domestic partnership" or whatever else people call it is simply not the same thing. It does not give you the same rights as those granted by marriage since "marriage" is written into all sorts of laws and it would be up to interpretation whether or not people would grant those same rights to other partnerships.

In the end it comes down to this: what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Calling it something else to appease the religious bigots is not fair. So that’s why, my international friends, in the states, we aren’t too fond of giving up marriage rights for gays and lesbians in favor of another form of partnership. Separate but equal has a lot of baggage here.