I am getting ready to leave for Chicago for a conference where I'm talking about Chobits. I had to deal with my absentee ballot stuff and although I'm not in California and I'm not seeing the Prop 8 commercials, B has shown me a few and if there's something I'm so sick of voting on it's parental notification of underage abortion and gay marriage. I vote the same way every time (no on notification, yes on gay marriage).

Here's a clip that my favorite blog fourfour put up on his page:



If you think about it, based on the Bible's definition, my marriage to Brad is an abomination. We are not nation-building. We have sex for sex's sake. Not for procreation. (My marriage is an abomination... huh. That's kind of cool, now that I have thought about it.)

I have issues with marriage in general--is it weird for someone who is "happily married" to still not believe in the institution? Oh well, I'll take it: I'm weird. And probably a hypocrite. And at the risk of sounding even more like a hypocrite: even though I don't really believe in marriage, I'm really tired of the government trying to regulate our bodies and families.

Even though I'm really against people getting married for stupid reasons (i.e. Sarah Palin's pregnant, teenage daughter--I have don't have a problem that the teenager is keeping the baby, I have a problem that the issue is moot simply because she and her teenage boyfriend are going to get married! Wow! Problem solved!), or people getting married who shouldn't really be married (like my mom--she's wasn't emotionally healthy and married my loser ex-step-father as a way to not be lonely).

So even though these people are getting married for horrible reasons, I'm not about to take those mistakes away from them! Let them learn!

But what about gay marriage? Well, if homosexual couples want to get married, who I am to stop that?

I'm annoyed and out-raged when people try to take rights away from one another. Let them all learn!

And every once in a while, when people are given the freedom, a cool definition of marriage arises, like an abominable one: I wouldn't have gotten married if it wasn't to B. He's the only person I've ever trusted enough to make marriage different: 8 years together, no kids, and I'm living away for a year to pursue a career opportunity--that's a very cool, and a very different definition of marriage.

Oh, and the parental notification crap? Yeah... the government cannot force familial communication. If they can't force communication about drugs, they ain't gonna be successful with abortion.

...in 2006 there was a spike in teenage pregnancies for the first time in, like, 20 years. This current economic crisis we're in the midst of is not a sudden disaster. It's been a slow, rolling boil for a long time coming. When parents cannot be parents due to working 50-80 work weeks, things like teen pregnancy and drug use are inevitably going to rise.

Instead of trying to violate peoples' bodies and homes, maybe the government should spend money on comprehensive education and mass public transportation programs that benefit all economic areas of society, including the poor areas like where I came from. I lived so far away from anything remotely considered a town that the only things to do where I lived were smoke pot and fuck. I'm not saying public transportation is the answer to all life's needs, but, I don't know... maybe it'd give people something else to do. Yeah, we need a bullet train! From Northern California to Southern California. That'd be awesome...

Okay, back to packing. A Scream Awards post is in the works... but I'm finalizing my conference paper and my presentation is on Friday, after that I'll be free.

Labels: against, politics, prop 4, prop 8, voting

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