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Dec. 19th, 2003 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kz_blogoramblingI'm starting to feel like a heel for my vote...
In that American Family Association (Ha, Families only the way THEY define them) I was one of the people who voted for civil unions rather than marriage.
it's not that *I* have anything against the concept of same-sex marriage. It's just that some people seem rather hung up on the term (and the Webster dictionary definition of) "marriage". So I figgered, let them have their term if it's that precious to them. What I care about are rights, and if those can be attained with another term like "civil union" than I'm happy. I was being accommodating (or so I thought) but as few people are crowing over those votes, I feel like people think that's the more penurious choice.
In that American Family Association (Ha, Families only the way THEY define them) I was one of the people who voted for civil unions rather than marriage.
it's not that *I* have anything against the concept of same-sex marriage. It's just that some people seem rather hung up on the term (and the Webster dictionary definition of) "marriage". So I figgered, let them have their term if it's that precious to them. What I care about are rights, and if those can be attained with another term like "civil union" than I'm happy. I was being accommodating (or so I thought) but as few people are crowing over those votes, I feel like people think that's the more penurious choice.
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Date: 2003-12-19 08:29 am (UTC)What matters is the rights, and if civil unions were declared and made exactly the same as civil marriages, I'd be one happy, happy camper. You were voting in consideration of the issue, voting for the minimum that you would find acceptable. That's fine.