Got a letter in the mail today, asking "should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?" It felt dystopian. I remember sitting in history class, thinking it was so foolish that there was a time where black people were not seen as human, that women were seen as naturally inferior to men, that Aboriginal people were taken from their own land--- no matter which period of time we chose, there was some group being discriminated against. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". It's my favourite quote from Orwell's Animal Farm. Humans are animals after all. We like to distinguish ourselves from others- not through any brilliance of our own, but through dragging others through the mud and laughing at their predicament.
To me, the question asked here isn't really "should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples of marry". It's really asking, "should same-sex couples be afforded the same rights as heterosexual couples"... or you know, "should same-sex couples be considered human?" Call me a Leftist if you will, but I think the LGBTIQ community are rightly upset... I mean, they might not even want to get married, but it's one thing to decide that you don't want to marry, and another for other people to deny you what everyone else has.
Still, I reply back to this insult of a survey, because I, as an individual, wish to contribute to the statistics which make up the "yes" vote. I just feel terribly sad that this is what 2017 looks like. I thought the horrors of the past were firmly in the past- but it's a new fight every day.
So on we fight.
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