Ward on gay marriage December 10, 2009
Posted by mbranesf in : Uncategorized , trackbackI know that the Outer Alliance, as an organization, has not issued an “official” position on whether people of the same sex ought to be allowed to marry. A few years ago, I myself was less gunned up about it than I am now. I actually was str8-married for a a few years back in my twenties, but it didn’t work out. I’ve been in a samesex partnership for nearly ten years now, unmarried obviously. My inner bomb-throwing radical sometimes agitates against marriage itself as a regressive patriarchal institution and makes me wonder why we even want it. But the fact remains that our civilization assigns it a status and stature and various legal rights that cannot be had by people who are not married. So, whether I like it or not, this has become a preoccupation and a cause for me, and I assume that favoring marriage equality everywhere is the position generally of the Outer Alliance.
Here’s a link to a very fine post from several months ago by Dayton Ward, the well-known Star Trek novelist and one of my Twitter buddies. He’s a straight married ally and a military veteran and would be ready and willing, if necessary, to kick the ass of anyone who thinks that they have the right to deny other people their civil rights. In fact, I bet he would agree with me that anyone who thinks that they have the right to oppress other people can get the fuck out of our country.
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