Bestiality is your best argument?

In the beginning marriage was strictly a religious institution. Throughout the years legal rights were tied together with this religious ceremony. Therein lies the problem. As a nation, we tried the whole separate but equal thing and it didn't work out. Ask any black person who had the misfortune of living through segregation.

This may not be about your rights. But it sure as shit is about mine.

The most common argument I have been hearing is, "If we let gays marry, next thing you know people will marry horses and chickens." More recently someone substituted various farm animals with lampposts. Let's for one second say this argument makes any sense at all and we allow people to marry lamp posts, goats, horses or canaries. How does this affect your marriage? How? It absolutely, in no way changes the relationship you have with your spouse. You imbue the word marriage with certain feelings, thoughts, beliefs and emotions. That is your right. Define your marriage however you please. But don't you dare define what my marriage should look like.

The whole idea of removing a right legally given to a minority group should send chills down your spine. This precedent the Mormon church has set terrifies me, as it should you. What is to stop someone from putting an item on the ballot banning Mormonism from certain states? A simple majority could banish an entire religion.

This entire movement was motivated by hate and fear and accomplished through lies. I read a press release from the Mormons on their website defending their position on traditional marriage. The entire statement was riddled with "possibly" "almost certainly will result in..." "could be construed" "groups are suggesting." It was one of the most cleverly worded, velvet tongued PR pieces I have ever laid eyes on. And I work in marketing and PR! All of it was designed to scare you into what might happen. Not what will happen. And guess what? It worked. Fear of things that may happen, in some twilight zone imagined by your first presidency, motived many undecided people to vote against marriage equality.

Dress it up however you like, but hate is hate. To coin a phrase used not too long ago by President Elect Obama: You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.