Same-sex marriage

Gay rights activists constantly batter their religious opposition for what they percieve to be religious folk as "forcing" their views onto the LGBT community.

And yet these same people then turn around and proclaim that they must be allowed to have the same rights in marriage as non-same sex couples.

Marriage itself is an inherently religious ceremony. What those gay rights activists are doing is essentially trying to force the non-gay community to accept their beliefs, changing their practices merely to accomodate others.

Anyone else see a double standard here? Anyone else see just a tint of hypocrisy?

Gay rights activists want everyone else to change, just to accomodate them. And they seem constitutionally incapable of comporomise, but then berate everyone else for not doing what they percieve as "compromise", but is actually forcing other people to bend to their wishes.

I think the ideal middle ground would be the legalisation of civil unions between one person and another, regardless of whether it is between a male and a female, or a male and a male, or a female and a female. In that way, the idea of 'marriage' is not altered, while people who are homosexual can still become life partners. And that, after all, is what marriage is really about. Not about dressing up and standing a church, but rather the commitment to a lifetime with the person that you love. If you can get that, does it matter about the venue, or if it's a priest that blesses the holy matrimony? These things are all irrelevant.

Do you ever get the urge...

Do you ever get that urge to shoot someone in the head with something high calibre, just to see their head explode? How about finding something really cute, and then stabbing it in the face? Or burning something really valuble, watching it go up in ashes. How about telling someone how you really feel, just to see how things will turn out? Strange, what we humans will do for love...I mean, I'd do the last thing up above, but I'd never do the first three. But they're all just as potentially self-destructive.

I keep telling myself that I should stop caring about girls, that none of it matters, that nothing'll happen anyway. But then there's this part of me that notices, that cares, what wants, that desires, that needs, that yearns for what it cannot have. And so every time that girl logs on, my heart skips a beat, my emotions spasm, and I fall over myself (electronically) to go talk to her.

We are human because we love. But love can dehumanise us. Why, then, should I subject myself to the whims of the Fates, when I can end things so much simpler?
Because I am human, there exists no other path. I cannot transcend my Earthly presence. And so, for here unto eternity, I am doomed to cherish but to never have, love but to never hold. The blessing of Life, but the the curse of Love.