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like it's 1999

ok, not quite. but we will have a party. don't know if it will be happy or sad. don't know if the parents will be calling me asking what the outcome is (like they did in 2000 when their cable was out)...

dont know if my mom will say "fuck" for the 4th time in her life. (#3 was when she found out Bush took Ohio in 2000).

I'd like to think that my folks are educated, well read, logical individuals... but I'm not sure how they voted on Issue 1.

Those of you not from Ohio (and some here) probably think Issue 1 is all about gay marriage. Well, it's NOT. It's about denying any kind of rights to unmarried couples, despite how long they've been together, or what gender their partner is. Gay marriage is already unconstitutional in Ohio, even without this far-reaching and vague issue on the ballot.

Honestly, I can't remember caring so much about any issue, ever, as I have now. The "slippery slope" isnt toward marrying animals, but toward a society devoid of the freedoms we take for granted.

And now, today, I have to look people in the face who've decided to try to take that freedom from me. People who know my partner, who worked with him, who ask about his well-being on a regular basis.

I'm really fucking pissed.

And now I have to guess how my parents voted. I would like to think that they voted against issue 1. I'd like to think, after 7 years of my life spent with one person, that they'd want me to have some sort of rights... whether to visit him in the hospital, or whatever.

But that's just it... small town newspapers dont see this as anything but a gay marriage issue. Ohh... gays = bad. Burn the gays! Stone them!

Yes, I grew up in a very rural, bible thumping community. There was one church for about every 200 people. There was no choice. You were straight. That was God's will.

Guess what. It wasn't.

Man, I'm rambling.

And I'm angry.

And it's not doing much for my TMJ headache.

Comments

I come from the same town (or it's near facsimile) and I feel the same way sometimes/right now, brotha. Maybe that doesn't help, but I figured it couldn't hurt.

And then I use the wrong its/it's in my post and now I'm even more pissed than when I was just pissed about my civil rights being trampled.

this whole issue is such bullshit... and I don't get how people can say they accept and tolerate gay people, then in the same sentence say they're supporting this issue - which does everything it can to say that gay people and anything resembling them are not accepted or tolerated. It's fucking lip service. I'm hoping it will be found unconstitutional if it passes, like most of these measures are.

I hear you. I'm sitting here to get a break from the TV, which calls with it's siren song. 4 years ago I was in a house 4 blocks away from you on an Ikea couch with Di, who's probably just glad now that the kids are down for the night.

There isn't quite like being disliked in advance, is there? I can offer the world hundreds of reasons not to like me, and frequently do, but it's nice that it'll just stick to the one.

Looks like Issue 3 will pass here in Cincy - it repeals Article 12 (course by the time everything settles it may not) - If it doesn't I'm going to go fire, evict, and deny service to people of every race, creed, and cover, secure in the knowledge that I can just say they're gay. This town has it's fair share of fuckwits, but I'll feel a little better if 3 passes.

Every just wanna fucking say "ARRGH" and go live on an island somewhere.

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