Persuasion

Sigh.

I'm a supporter of gay marriage or civil unions or whatever you want to call them.  It's the libertarian in me.  It's a civil rights issue.  It bothers me that the husband and I were automatically granted any number of legal rights when we got married because we're straight.  That my gay and lesbian friends don't receive the same legal rights when they pair up bothers me.  And I am talking about the civil definition of marriage here---not a church mandated definition.  I'm strictly talking about the legal rights granted when two people are legally married.  I don't think churches should be forced to marry people who live outside of their beliefs. I don't think legalizing same-sex civil unions is going to open the door to legalizing polygamy.  I don't think gay marriage is going to hurt the institution of marriage; I think it's actually going to save it. To badly paraphrase P.J. O'Rourke:  I'm so conservative I want gays and lesbians to get married so they can start bitching about high taxes, bad schools and the like.  After all, they could probably teach us a thing or two about political activism.   

That said, as much as I love Marc Shaiman, this little video is not the way to go about persuading people to support your cause.