For those people who voted for Prop 8 in California or those who support them in the other 49 States, I fucking hate and feel sorry for you. Ya’s see, I was in a Straight marriage once for many years, but the moment came when we had to confront the needs of each other, it fractured within two days. Screw me, it was all about HER.
I walked away, with some pain, but with a massive lifting off of my shoulders of a weight handed to me by a scion of a Conservative family. I thought I had done what “society” deemed of me, and it was pure bull shit. When I needed to express myself, I no longer mattered. I was tossed away. (I also paid the bills.)
So I became myself. Became the person I always knew I was. I also knew that there was someone else out there who fit with me like a glove. And yes I did find her-
Her name is Betty.
She embraced me and my being, and I have never looked back. She is my love… my nemesis and my heartthrob. My friend, through thick and thin. The person who makes me into a better person. The person I want to strangle and yet hold onto for dear life.
My life means nothing if she isn’t in it. She’s my honey.
That’s called love… it’s also Sanctity beyond any of the religious frauds’ concepts. It is Blessed by the Goddess. It is what “marriage” is meant to be, a coupling of two people who pledge themselves to each other, “for better or for worse”. It is a Sacred bond given between two people that accept and embrace each other.
So I’m upset that many people, especially Mormons, Catholics and Blacks hate what me and my baby have. Isn’t this what Marriage was meant to be? Love, devotion, surrender? To merge together as one?
I guess they are wrong since I refuse to give up the life, and world, that has come to me by embracing this woman and saying, “Darlin’, I AM yours”.
In honor of that sentiment, here’s some lyrics from Santana that TOTALLY sums up how I feel about my Betty-
Sometimes, I imagine the world without you
But most times, I’m just so happy that I ever found you
It’s a complicated web, that you weave inside my head
So much pleasure with such pain
Hope we always, always stay the same
I’m feelin’ the way you cross my mind
And you save me in the nick of time
I’m ridin’ the highs, I’m diggin’ the lows
‘Cause at least I feel alive
I’ve never faced so many emotional days
But my life is good
I’m feelin’ you
I’m feelin’ you
You go, and then I can finally breathe in
‘Cause baby I know, in the end you’re never leavin’
Well we’re rarely ever sane, I drive you crazy and you do the same
But your fire fills my soul
And it warms me up like no one knows
‘Cause I’m feelin’ the way you cross my mind
And you save me in the nick of time
I’m ridin’ the highs, I’m diggin’ the lows
‘Cause at least I feel alive
I’ve never faced so many emotional days
But my life is good
I’m feelin’ you
I’m feelin’ you
[guitar solo]
I’m feelin’ the way you cross my mind
And you save me in the knick of time
I’m ridin’ the highs, I’m diggin’ the lows
‘Cause at least I feel alive
I’ve never faced so many emotional days
Oh, I’m feelin’ the way you cross my mind
And you save me in the nick of time
I’m ridin’ the highs, I’m diggin’ the lows
‘Cause at least I feel alive
I’ve never faced so many emotional days
But my life is good
I’m feelin’ you
I’m feelin’ you
I’m feelin’ you
Oh, I’m feelin’ you
Oh, I’m feelin’ the way that you cross my mind
And the way that you save me in the knick of time
Oh I’m feelin’ the way when you walk on by
I feel light, I feel love, I feel butterflies
I feel butterflies
How the fuck can anyone legislate against what we have in the name of Sanctity?
It’s not sanity. (And I feel sorry for you)
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Pingback by Love Is All You Need « Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans — November 16, 2008 @ 10:49 pm
As a heterosexual, I fully support your right to marry the person you love as I have been able to. It is absolutely unfair that I get to sign a civil marriage contract with my honey and you cannot with yours.
It sickens me that these people in CA voted against same sex marriage while voting to allow chickens to have more rights.
Comment by Daniel Z — November 17, 2008 @ 11:18 am
To paraphrase a Watergate-era bumper sticker, “Don’t blame me, I’m from Connecticut.” Very quietly, my erstwhile friends and neighbors decisively rejected an attempt to mess with their state’s Constitution in a similar fashion. They take such matters quite seriously up there: CT license plates read “Constitution State”. It probably also helped that the Morons et al. weren’t pouring million$ into the state.
So perhaps you guys should pay them a visit (though I’d recommend doing so in spring; it starts to get downright nasty right about now). Tell ‘em the guy who used to ride the train from New Haven to Stratford all the time says Hi…
Comment by KamaAina — November 17, 2008 @ 1:53 pm
You have strongly held beliefs on this subject. So do Mormons and RCs and others. I tend to agree with you more, but I cannot agree with those who refuse to respect others’ absolute right to disagree and to order the affairs of their communities as the majority sees fit. The same-sex marriage laws that have been proposed usually carried with them extended, unnecessary and wrongful consequences, that would interfere with free exercise of religion. The key is for government at every level to get the hell out of marriage, sex between consenting adults, religion, and state of mind (i.e., the neo-prohibition). If people want certain benefits provided by society and/or government to encourage stable “family” relationships, they should enter into a legal/civil union. If anyone wants the blessing of a church, go do that with the church of your choice and call it anything you want–marriage, mind-meld, horizontal mambo, whatever. Just don’t ever expect either to give a crap about the other. In short, trying to re-define marriage to refer to a same-sex civil union is barking up the wrong tree. If you want a result different from that seen in just about every state this carp has been tried, you will need to approach it from a different perspective–removing government from the whole institution rather than trying to force government interference where it doesn’t belong is the only possibly workable approach.
Comment by Ay Uaxe — November 21, 2008 @ 3:45 pm