What is it that makes people think that they know what's best for everyone else? I think about it in terms of the elementary school tattletale. It's the kid who assumes the role of Second in Command, the one who constantly tells the teacher who's doing what, based solely on indicators of right and wrong provided by the teacher (or parents), without any real personal connection or investment in the act itself. The phrase 'MYOB' would generally stifle the tattler back in elementary school, but that doesn't seem to be working now. Is the voting public really populated by so many tattletale personalities? This question leads to another: WHY ARE WE VOTING ON THIS ANYWAY? At heart, it's an issue of morality, not a social issue. Basically, if you didn't already think being gay was wrong, you wouldn't give a shit whether or not gay folks could get married.
And let's face it: Marriage hasn't ever been sacred. With the way it's abused by heterosexual people, what exactly are we trying to preserve? The right to have long drawn out legal battles for property and children? The right to get married and divorced within months, or sometimes days? The right to pay the government money for a marriage certificate? Come on. The bottom line is that you can't stop gay people from loving each other and being in relationships that are like marriages in every way (except the legal one). They're not going to disappear, or stop holding hands in public, or sleep in separate beds, or any of that. Banning gay marriage does not ban being gay, silly.
Finally, on a little bit deeper level, why do you care so much about what other people, people that you will never once cross paths with in your life, are doing? Why do people take such a vested interest in things that don't affect them, while often ignoring the things that do? As Jay-Z so eloquently put it, "What you eat don't make me shit." So MYOB!
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