Anyone who knows me probably chuckled when they read that title cause if you know me you have to know that dangerous is something to which I could never lay claim! Seriously I am about the most non-violent, conflict avoiding, peace loving person you could ever meet. I'm a conformist at heart - I hate drawing attention to myself. I follow rules.
So how come I say that I'm a dangerous man? Because my relationship with my partner threatens to destroy the sanctity of no less an institution than marriage! If my partner and I would be allowed to marry (we've been together for nine years) the family as we know it as an institution would become a thing of the past! It's very interesting to have this kind of power. I know the power must be real because the voters in a lot of states (Texas included) voted to amend their constitutions so that I can never get married there. Actually I can't even go to a state where Gay marriage is allowed and get married and then come back to Texas and ask for my relationship to be recognized - if I did there would be no more families in Texas. They would all apparently just fall apart because of the recognition! Men would call their wives and say, "Bill & Paul got married so I'm leaving you and the kids - marriage as we knew it no longer has meaning!" Mothers and fathers would go their separate ways leaving thousands of homeless and parent less children wandering the streets. Being able to create that kind of chaos in a society qualifies me as dangerous!
I am more dangerous than Brittany Spears. She spit on traditional marriage when she got drunk, got a license, married a guy, and then divorced him all in less than 48 hours BUT marriage remained a viable institution after that happened and she's famous! Most married people have never even heard of us but if we could go to Vegas and get a license and get married THAT would do it - marriages would crumble... Dangerous. And don't even get me started on her second marriage, yet life as we know it and marriage as an institution goes on. She is not as dangerous as I!
I am more dangerous than the polygamists that split away from the Mormon church apparently. A year ago the State of Texas acting through Child Protective Services raided a camp of these folks and took a couple hundred children away from their parents because of reported child abuse. The kids are back with parents now because abuse wasn't discovered - they are POLYGAMISTS! Each man marries multiple women often times old men marry young girls but that doesn't seem to threaten marriage as an institution. How can that be allowed as some kind of religious exemption? Because they believe in God they're okay? Newsflash - some Gay people believe in God too. I can actually imagine a husband calling his wife and saying, "you know I'll stay with you but I want to marry and have sex with a couple of other women - nothing personal, you may like them!" But that is not as threatening as Gay couples marrying! I/we are very dangerous!
I am more dangerous than divorce. I read somewhere that more than half of all marriages end in divorce. Forgive me for being a simpleton but isn't that way more threatening to the institution of marriage and family than my relationship? Apparently not - no one has even suggested that we should pass a constitutional amendment to forbid divorce. Oh, wait...a lot of people against Gay marriage are divorced themselves - how the hell do they seek to pass laws to protect an institution that they themselves violated? Somehow their hypocrisy isn't dangerous but me, my relationship...DANGEROUS!
I am more dangerous than adultery. Remember adultery? It's called out in the Ten Commandments - the Ten Commandments!! Let me point out that no where in the Bible does it say, "Thou shalt not recognize Gay marriage." I don't want to get into a Biblical argument with anyone who reads this so if you are thinking about sending me a Bible lesson don't! If you do I'll marry my partner and then your marriage will fall apart - don't push me - I'm dangerous, you've probably said it yourself! Were you lying (there's a specific commandment about that too!). But I digress...many law makers - hell, the freakin' president of the US committed adultery while he was in the White House - the same president who signed the "Defense of Marriage Act" - remember DOMA? It was passed to allow states to ignore relationships sanctioned by other states if the relationship was not between one man and one woman. If you can't see the irony in that then forgive me while I laugh at your expense.
I am more dangerous that the Menendez Brothers. Remember them? They were living at home with their wealthy parents when they drove to a nearby town, bought shotguns and shells and killed their parents. Their parents were watching television and having a little ice cream when their sons walked in and started shooting them in the back! They emptied the guns, reloaded and emptied them again until their parents lay lifeless in pools of their own blood. When they were arrested the video shows them in court being arraigned and they are joking around and acting all cocky like they were picked up for speeding knew they would get off with a slap on the wrist! One of these two psychopaths while serving his life sentence in California has gotten married. He got married! I did not hear a single person suggest that sanctioning his marriage would in any way threaten the institution. I did hear a woman interviewed on the news the night he was married saying that he deserved the "comfort" of marriage, even though he and his wife would never spend a minute without bars separating them he "DESERVED the COMFORT" but even if I deserve the comfort of marriage I can't be married because it would destroy marriage as an institution. I am one dangerous S.O.B!
Because I am so dangerous and not allowed to marry I pay more taxes than I would if married. We spent several thousand dollars with lawyers to form a partnership and to get paperwork that in theory would allow us to be treated as if we are married in certain situations. I carry a card in my wallet that would allow a hospital to get a fax of my medical power of attorney in the event Paul is hospitalized and can be seen only by "family." My attorney tells me that an interested party (like my family of origin) could fight that power of attorney because the Texas constitutional amendment says that the "state may not recognize a relationship between two members of the same sex that are not related by blood." I guess that being able to visit Paul or make medical decisions for him if he is not able to would somehow threaten some body's marriage. Brittany Spears in that 48 hours she was married would have automatically had power of attorney and several hundred other rights that I have paid for but still may not possess. To give me these rights would destroy marriage?
So for my straight readers who would tell me that I should lighten up and accept a Civil Union or that I should "understand" that some people just don't believe that marriage should be redefined as anything other than between a man and a woman I would just like to say, "Don't fuck with me or I'll find a way to get married and then you won't have marriage as an institution." I am VERY DANGEROUS!
So how come I say that I'm a dangerous man? Because my relationship with my partner threatens to destroy the sanctity of no less an institution than marriage! If my partner and I would be allowed to marry (we've been together for nine years) the family as we know it as an institution would become a thing of the past! It's very interesting to have this kind of power. I know the power must be real because the voters in a lot of states (Texas included) voted to amend their constitutions so that I can never get married there. Actually I can't even go to a state where Gay marriage is allowed and get married and then come back to Texas and ask for my relationship to be recognized - if I did there would be no more families in Texas. They would all apparently just fall apart because of the recognition! Men would call their wives and say, "Bill & Paul got married so I'm leaving you and the kids - marriage as we knew it no longer has meaning!" Mothers and fathers would go their separate ways leaving thousands of homeless and parent less children wandering the streets. Being able to create that kind of chaos in a society qualifies me as dangerous!
I am more dangerous than Brittany Spears. She spit on traditional marriage when she got drunk, got a license, married a guy, and then divorced him all in less than 48 hours BUT marriage remained a viable institution after that happened and she's famous! Most married people have never even heard of us but if we could go to Vegas and get a license and get married THAT would do it - marriages would crumble... Dangerous. And don't even get me started on her second marriage, yet life as we know it and marriage as an institution goes on. She is not as dangerous as I!
I am more dangerous than the polygamists that split away from the Mormon church apparently. A year ago the State of Texas acting through Child Protective Services raided a camp of these folks and took a couple hundred children away from their parents because of reported child abuse. The kids are back with parents now because abuse wasn't discovered - they are POLYGAMISTS! Each man marries multiple women often times old men marry young girls but that doesn't seem to threaten marriage as an institution. How can that be allowed as some kind of religious exemption? Because they believe in God they're okay? Newsflash - some Gay people believe in God too. I can actually imagine a husband calling his wife and saying, "you know I'll stay with you but I want to marry and have sex with a couple of other women - nothing personal, you may like them!" But that is not as threatening as Gay couples marrying! I/we are very dangerous!
I am more dangerous than divorce. I read somewhere that more than half of all marriages end in divorce. Forgive me for being a simpleton but isn't that way more threatening to the institution of marriage and family than my relationship? Apparently not - no one has even suggested that we should pass a constitutional amendment to forbid divorce. Oh, wait...a lot of people against Gay marriage are divorced themselves - how the hell do they seek to pass laws to protect an institution that they themselves violated? Somehow their hypocrisy isn't dangerous but me, my relationship...DANGEROUS!
I am more dangerous than adultery. Remember adultery? It's called out in the Ten Commandments - the Ten Commandments!! Let me point out that no where in the Bible does it say, "Thou shalt not recognize Gay marriage." I don't want to get into a Biblical argument with anyone who reads this so if you are thinking about sending me a Bible lesson don't! If you do I'll marry my partner and then your marriage will fall apart - don't push me - I'm dangerous, you've probably said it yourself! Were you lying (there's a specific commandment about that too!). But I digress...many law makers - hell, the freakin' president of the US committed adultery while he was in the White House - the same president who signed the "Defense of Marriage Act" - remember DOMA? It was passed to allow states to ignore relationships sanctioned by other states if the relationship was not between one man and one woman. If you can't see the irony in that then forgive me while I laugh at your expense.
I am more dangerous that the Menendez Brothers. Remember them? They were living at home with their wealthy parents when they drove to a nearby town, bought shotguns and shells and killed their parents. Their parents were watching television and having a little ice cream when their sons walked in and started shooting them in the back! They emptied the guns, reloaded and emptied them again until their parents lay lifeless in pools of their own blood. When they were arrested the video shows them in court being arraigned and they are joking around and acting all cocky like they were picked up for speeding knew they would get off with a slap on the wrist! One of these two psychopaths while serving his life sentence in California has gotten married. He got married! I did not hear a single person suggest that sanctioning his marriage would in any way threaten the institution. I did hear a woman interviewed on the news the night he was married saying that he deserved the "comfort" of marriage, even though he and his wife would never spend a minute without bars separating them he "DESERVED the COMFORT" but even if I deserve the comfort of marriage I can't be married because it would destroy marriage as an institution. I am one dangerous S.O.B!
Because I am so dangerous and not allowed to marry I pay more taxes than I would if married. We spent several thousand dollars with lawyers to form a partnership and to get paperwork that in theory would allow us to be treated as if we are married in certain situations. I carry a card in my wallet that would allow a hospital to get a fax of my medical power of attorney in the event Paul is hospitalized and can be seen only by "family." My attorney tells me that an interested party (like my family of origin) could fight that power of attorney because the Texas constitutional amendment says that the "state may not recognize a relationship between two members of the same sex that are not related by blood." I guess that being able to visit Paul or make medical decisions for him if he is not able to would somehow threaten some body's marriage. Brittany Spears in that 48 hours she was married would have automatically had power of attorney and several hundred other rights that I have paid for but still may not possess. To give me these rights would destroy marriage?
So for my straight readers who would tell me that I should lighten up and accept a Civil Union or that I should "understand" that some people just don't believe that marriage should be redefined as anything other than between a man and a woman I would just like to say, "Don't fuck with me or I'll find a way to get married and then you won't have marriage as an institution." I am VERY DANGEROUS!
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