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LETTER: Keep the dignity of marriage licenses

Are we defending the “definition of a marriage license” or are we, as some would like to claim, “discriminating,” by denying financial benefits rights married couples have?

Is that what all this is coming down to — money? Because no one is taking away non-married people’s ability to live under one roof.

Discriminating means you cannot infringe upon someone’s right to life and liberties — or someone’s ability to live and do the best you can do in this country. And if you can’t do it on your own, there are organizations that are willing to help.

But within that phrase, no one is guaranteed a certain place to live in a certain upscale neighborhood, no one is guaranteed a $50,000 minimum salary job, no one is guaranteed a retirement package. If you want this, you have to work harder than everyone else, and some people have.

Many people have worked hard for degrees, certifications and licenses. To say that everyone else has the rights to the same benefits these licensed people have worked for is discrimination.

As a student with disabilities, I have also worked hard to graduate from civil engineering and will pursue my professional engineering license. That license will mean a lot to me, because I know what the license will stand for and how hard I had to work for it. The level of standards for a professional engineer is very high and will not be lowered for me, even if I have a disability. The only accommodation I can receive is longer testing time and a quiet place, but I still have to pass the same test.

I also know what it means to have a marriage license. Being married to the opposite sex is not easy. You have to work at it everyday for it to be successful, and I have successfully made my marriage work, to the opposite sex, for 20 years.

Gay people say they tried, but couldn’t do it because they where not sexually attracted to them. Well, let me tell you, 20 years of marriage has not been based on sexual attraction — it’s been hard work to overcome obstacles as they arise between two different people of two different sexes.

And now you want to tell me all my hard work means nothing and that my license should be lowered to not require a man and a woman union.

No one’s going to lower my professional engineering license for my disability, and that’s not considered discrimination, nor should it be.

But it’s discrimination when I don’t want my marriage license lowered?

Nancy Suby-Bohn
Senior
Civil Engineering

You know. I have aboslutely NO IDEA what this woman is talking about. Can someone explain to me!

It seems as though she’s saying she’s had to work hard in her relationship or that she’s not sexually attracted to her partner. Or that we as homosexuals should just work HARDER or pretending to like the opposite sex…What a fucking moron this woman is.

Anyways, today’s been boring. And that’s my date.

Laters all.

“I’m Stupid, What About Group Marriges”

God, so last night I watched Larry King Live, and it was the funniest thing I’ve EVER seen. They had on there, The mayor of SF, a stupid republican who introduced the amendment, some idiot pastor and a hot hot gay boy, named Chad.

Anyways, it was very funny and everytime the rep would talk to the mayor, she’d be like, “What about group marriges, why aren’t you allowing those” and that was like the ONLY thing she said the whole time… Well that and saying that she was “Following the law”. She also said that the courts were stupid. Only in like 100 times more words!

The pastor was an idiot and everyone kept getting on him about seperation of church and state, and he just didn’t seem to get that idea, because everytime they talked to him he was like, “The bible says” or “God did this” or “Thye’re sinners, theywon’t get into heaven” To which Larry King said, “What if they don’t want into heaven, shouldn’t we let them get married while they are here on earth”.. That was a really good come back I thought.

The homo was kinda quiet, but really cute. And when he did speak he had really good points. No one could really rebut him…

I think this little snipit is REALLY good:

KING: All right, John, let me — let me move to other members of the panel. We have four members of the panel. I want to get everyone in. John, what do you say to those who say, What about Chad and the love of his life being together? Isn’t that better than, say, the heterosexual marriage where one of the partners cheats? Who is contributing more to the moral decay of the society, the adulterous husband with the female wife or the loving gay couple who don’t do that?

MACARTHUR: Yes, well, you’re asking me to do something I really can’t do, and make a judgment on which sin is better or worse than the other. We’ve suffered in this country from adultery, divorce, the abuse of children, pedophilia, you name it. I’m not going to classify those in rank. They’re sins, and they destroy the family. KING: And homosexuality is…

MACARTHUR: And homosexuality…

KING: … a sin to you.

MACARTHUR: Yes. And…

KING: Therefore, it’s a choice.

MACARTHUR: It’s a choice you make. It’s a sinful choice.

KING: Did you make a choice to be heterosexual?

MACARTHUR: I don’t think I had to make a choice to be heterosexual. I think that’s a natural thing.

KING: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. In other words, one is a choice and one is not?

MACARTHUR: Yes.

KING: So he was unlucky and you’re…

MACARTHUR: Because — because you’re not talking about — because it’s natural to be heterosexual. That’s built…

KING: What do you mean by natural?

MACARTHUR: Well, I mean, that’s the way God made us. That’s the normal…

KING: But if he doesn’t feel that way, what is he, then? He’s not a sinner. It wasn’t his decision.

MACARTHUR: Yes, I think it was his decision.

ALLEN: I would love, absolutely love for the pastor to point out for me when in my life I made that decision because I have to tell you, it caused a lot of pain in my family. It caused a lot of pain to me. It’s a very, very tough thing that I had to go through. I don’t remember making that decision. If I did, maybe can you point it out, but that wasn’t the case for me.

(CROSSTALK)

ALLEN: It’s who I am. You also said that it was in the fabric of the human being that — to understand that marriage was between a man and a woman and that’s what family was. It must not be because it’s not in the fabric of what who I am. It’s not the way I see it. I think families come in all shapes, sizes and colors.

MACARTHUR: Well, let me respond this way, Chad, and say it had to be in the fabric of humanity or you wouldn’t be here.

ALLEN: I believe that reproduction is. I’ll give you that. I absolutely believe that reproduction is. However, I think family, the definition of family and the definition of reproduction are very, very different things.

You can go read the whole transcript here.

It really was a good debate. And I was switching between that and the debate over exporting jobs in congress, which was also a good job. Apparently Bush wants to make McDonald type jobs a “manufacturing” job so that he can inflate the number of “manyfacturing” jobs in the US, since we have had the greatest loss during his presidency. The two democrats that were talking about it called it, “Traditional Manufacturing” and “McManufacturing”.

Speaking of McDonalds, did you all know that they also own Fazolis and Boston Market. Crazyness I do say! So now we can’t eat there anymore either. 🙁 Oh well. Not like I ate there alot anyways.

Anyways, before I did all of that, I wrote the first half of my second 1600 word paper. It’s going much better then the first paper, and I should be able to easily finish it tonight. Hopefully I’ll do as good on this one as I did on the last one. I’d like to get an A in that class… So far I’m on track to do that… I’ve got 22 out of the possible 25 points in there.

Umm, I didn’t do much else yesterday. My life is pretty boring as of late, same old stuff going on.

Though, I AM going to Cali in less then 9 days! Woot!

Anyways. I should go work now.
Laters all.

Spearding Rumors

Well this is going to be a bit of a short update, because I just don’t have the time to write a really long one like I had planned.

This weekend has sure had it’s ups and downs that’s for sure. Andrew and I have been fighting for a while about lots of random shit and thankfully I think we got it all taken care of this weekend. So everything seems to be good again. 🙂

Friday night Jayson came up and we hung out and watched movies. We also talked about his sex life, and stuff and I know that he was lying about a few things. Now I’m a bit scared that he might go and spread rumors that we did something. Whatever though, I’m only going to be here a few more months (158 Days).

Oh, speaking of counting down… There’s LESS THEN 20 DAYS TO MY TRIP TO MERIDA!!! YAY!

Spent Saturday and Sunday at home, reading. Though I did go to the mall and buy some underwear and a new t-shirt, and also took my jacket in to be fitted. So that was exciting. I kinda wanted to go out saturday night, but not really all at the same time. So I didn’t make any ambitious effort to call anyone. So I just stayed home and watched movies and the like. We had HBO/etc for the weekend. Good times!

Sunday I went and picked up the PU’s from the airport. And then came back to my place late last night.

Now I’m at work.

Lates all.

Good Weekend

I had a good weekend. Things are much better then they were when I wrote last entry.

PU’s are back.

Longer entry tomorrow.

Scary Fact: I can go 3 months without wearing the same shirt, and more then 2 months without wearing the same underwear… But I can’t even go a week without wearing the same pants… Next purchases will be pants!

Laters all.