Brody's Journal... Comment Of The Week

I really, REALLY wish that the gay community would stop stepping right into the right-wing talking memo of referring to Marriage Equality for Gay Americans as "gay" marriage or "same-sex" marriage. 

The right does this to make us SEPARATE in the use of language to better deny equal rights for us. Would you ask the African-American couple down the street, "Hey, how's your BLACK marriage going?" Would you ask the heterosexual couple, "How's your STRAIGHT marriage doing?" Of course not, it's marriage PERIOD. 

It is about defusing the term the right uses to separate the gay community from everyone else by simply saying, "It is about MARRIAGE EQUALITY for Gay Americans, no more, no less."

Tim from Burbank, California on February 5th, 2011