Marriage Equality Rhode Island

kd1s@yahoo.com on August 14, 2009 at 6:54 pm

I might be able to make it. It’s a little uncertain right now but I did tip Fred Karger to a photographer friend of mine. Hopefully we’ll get some pictures of Maggie Gallagher suitable for dart throwing.

John Whitestone on August 15, 2009 at 2:57 pm

We do not need to pull down marriage for all in order to make ourselves feel better…I am really disappointed with this movement.  Civil Unions achieve everything that we really need.  What about living in peace and harmony?

uberdykeri@yahoo.com on August 16, 2009 at 12:30 am

PEAC?? Is this the Socialists , leeching off organizations, to further thier own agenda, again? I remember them doing the very same thing, in the early stages of feminist planning for Take Back The Night.
  I don’t feel, as a Rhode Island lesbian, that “ vowing social justice’ replaces ‘ marriage vows’.
MERI needs to get on it’s own feet and actually DO something, instead of holding endless rallies to preach to the converted. This is why MERI does not get my dollars and many others.
But who really reads this blog, anyway?

Aficio Nado on August 18, 2009 at 12:38 am

Love is NOT the issue of contention when discussing same-sex as contrasted with opposite sex couplings—It’s the sexual acts performed—and, more precisely, that which is NOT performed (historically called ‘the marital act’ or ‘making love’)—which forms the crux of the matter. It’s what persons do, its their physical acts –not their feelings or emotions– that distinguish the relationship of a husband and wife from that of other two-somes. Every human being is free to love and be loved. Every human being is free to enter into marriage: known, since time began, as the union of male and female, the two ‘becoming one flesh’ for reasons not the least of which include stability and care for the new human persons borne of said union.  Under our laws, all available persons ‘of age’ are free to seek and marry an available member of the opposite sex.  There IS equal freedom to marry, and there ISN’T discrimination. 

Sexual intimacy between a man and a woman frequently brings forth new human life – ask Planned Parenthood!  A completely unique and unrepeatable human being is generated in the process. In the process of climactic activity between same sex individuals, human generation is not an option… Sperm and egg shall never meet in the encounter. Human anatomy teaches us that male and female come together face to face and heart to heart… There is only one fecund conjugal act known to humanity: intercourse between male and female! 

People ought to think a bit longer about what can truly be called “equal” and what one merely pretends is equal in order to either flatter one’s own proclivities or to appear ‘broad minded’. Who wouldn’t want to experience marital Love? Having a lifelong spouse with whom to share home and with whom to create and raise a family borne of affectionate relations.

When weighing in on the issue of so called “same sex marriage”- (an oxymoron) - let us ask people to consider what will be done on the wedding night? The singularly profound act between a man and woman which brought each of us, and all of our ancestors, back to the beginning of the human family tree, into this world? The act which will likely bring to the couple the joy of a new human life, a couple’s very own son or daughter to love and to be loved by? A baby boy or girl biologically linked to the woman and her husband, both reflective of and incorporating all of their unique forebears?
Or do they really believe that inherently barren sex-play with one’s anatomical mirror-image is of equal significance to a woman’s, or man’s,  fulfillment?