Conversation with a co-worker today-Gay Marriage will lead to marrying pet [View All]

[noahmijo]

First off I am not posting this to put this guy up for flame fodder-if anything it just sickens me and drives me nuts that a guy who at the core is decent could make some of the remarks he made today.

I want to point out in fairness that this guy is a staunch Mexican Catholic (I'm just of Mexican descent) who hates Bush, opposes the Iraq War, believes strongly in helping the poor, and supports humane regulations when it comes to illegal immigration.

Sounds like one of us doesn't he? Then the topic of Gay Marriage comes up and he states he believes that gay marriage would absolutely destroy the sanctity of it.

This came as no surprise to me as this is how it is with many Mexican Catholics out here...their hearts are in the right place overall but they just cannot and will never get over the gay marriage and abortion hump and they loudly use those as the wedge issues that they are.

Anyways he went further to say that gay marriage would lead to people being able to marry their pets? "When does it end??"


My response was typical I asked how a notion like that can even be considered logical given that:

1. A pet is a completely different species, gays may be doin it same gender style but they are human beings the same.
2. What benefits would you possibly get by marrying a pet? "Yea I married Fido last week for the insurance benefits! he's a cop ya know, well he helps them at least"


Naturally he didn't have much to say to that, but I told him anyway that my issue is not so much that gay marriage is a passion of mine that I must see legalized immediately it's that we have so much bigger issues at hand that it sickens and saddens me that the near religious majority in this country demand that non-issues like this take center-stage.

Then he started telling me about marriage being sacred you know done before God, ect to which I said that if marriage is so sacred why not outlaw divorce? why not stop Britney Spears from having another drive-thru wedding or better yet stop Rush from marrying for a 4th freaking time!

He actually chuckled at the last bit, but carried on the notion that this is the way the bible intends it and that I might want to think about changing my line of thinking if I would like to avoid the inferno basically.

My simple response was "Well if there is a god, he'd be a pretty sick bastard to want to burn me alive. I am good to my friends and family, I help and volunteer for those in need, I don't even eat any products that in some way came from an animal (Vegan) what more does God want from me? I mean who is to say this God you're talking about isn't some asshole imposter? what makes this god any any better than say Osiris or Apollo? I mean really how do you know you are right and the muslims are wrong or vice versa? you don't really know and that's the point you base your entire belief system on faith not facts, and that's fine if it makes you feel better about yourself or encourages you to do things, but when you try to mix it into political reality that is a deadly game and one that this country really REALLY needs to stop playing."




Did me no good of course and I wasn't about to believe my words sunk in at all but that's just the way it is, and why ultimately I don't know what to do. When the majority of this nation feels the need to justify nearly every vile act they commit on the notion that we were all created because some snake talked some naked woman into eating "forbidden" fruit what the hell is the use in trying anymore?

Well for one we've been through worse (The Puritans) and two it is damn fun to watch the "true believers" squirm when they know they can't compete with FACTS.

I almost feel sorry for this guy I really do.