Jim says this is about boy-people/girl-people the way the issue of gay marriage is about the 2 components of a given couple being "not-the-same" as the conflict here. But these 2 people don't seem to be in that "they-aren't-different-from-each-other" category, are they? One lives as male and one as female, don't they? So this is just discrimination of the "you-aren't-enough-like-me" category, isn't it?
I'm tired and maybe too confused......
I agree that something is odd here. How would the clerk know about either party's birth certificate gender determination? Perhaps this couple intentionally set themselves up as a test case? Of course, you can see by my earlier entries that I think this whole issue is ridiculous and unconstitutional.
I do find it interesting that Christians are discriminating against other Christians based on their Christianity. Not that that is new; my experience is that if you put a group of 25 Christians together, they will find a way to splinter into some number of smaller groups, all claiming that they are following "true" Christianity and that they alone know the one true word of Christ. I'm relieved to never have been a Christian (at least in THIS life-time) because I wouldn't be able to tolerate being lumped into these groups or assumed to be a supporter of all this bigotry. Again, I'm astonished at how some people are violating the fundamental (yep, chose that word on purpose) principles of being American in the name of being a good Christian, while thinking of both of those terms as synonymous. All I can say is that I hope some of the GLBT etc. individuals out there who are directly affected by all of this can at least see that they have some support from people who don't really identify as GLBT and I hope that some of these rabid moralists see that they don't have universal support. Not that the opinion of one such as I would count in their eyes. One woman, one vote. *GRIN*
I'm confused
I'm tired and maybe too confused......
I agree that something is odd here. How would the clerk know about either party's birth certificate gender determination? Perhaps this couple intentionally set themselves up as a test case? Of course, you can see by my earlier entries that I think this whole issue is ridiculous and unconstitutional.
I do find it interesting that Christians are discriminating against other Christians based on their Christianity. Not that that is new; my experience is that if you put a group of 25 Christians together, they will find a way to splinter into some number of smaller groups, all claiming that they are following "true" Christianity and that they alone know the one true word of Christ.
I'm relieved to never have been a Christian (at least in THIS life-time) because I wouldn't be able to tolerate being lumped into these groups or assumed to be a supporter of all this bigotry.
Again, I'm astonished at how some people are violating the fundamental (yep, chose that word on purpose) principles of being American in the name of being a good Christian, while thinking of both of those terms as synonymous.
All I can say is that I hope some of the GLBT etc. individuals out there who are directly affected by all of this can at least see that they have some support from people who don't really identify as GLBT and I hope that some of these rabid moralists see that they don't have universal support. Not that the opinion of one such as I would count in their eyes.
One woman, one vote. *GRIN*