Well, my cat, Ubu, decided that I had been asleep too long and I needed to get up and play. So, as I sat there, still in a daze, with her purring trying to get me all the way out of bed, I was thinking about the socialogical and psycological (i can't spell... just woke up... :P ) impacts of many of the current events in the world today. It started off with space(I don't know how I got on this thought, but I blame Dawn. Something about Star Trek and trying to figure out how a world like that would really impact society--especially first contact.), but it made me stray to how we are so unaccepting of ourselves in society.

There has long been a debate to whether we are alone in the universe--stuck here on this wet rock. I began to think about how dumb of an idea this is. People just absolutely refuse to believe there is more to the universe than what can be seen on our own planet. Now, I'm not saying that there definately is life out there; but, isn't it kind of dumb to just brush the fact aside like a child's dream? With the infinite amounts of space out there (despite the fact that they are starting to believe the universe looks more like a dodecahedron now and is actually an enclosed space, but that goes deep into quantum physics, so I'll spare u from my theories of a grander multiverse.), it's a lil ignorant to just write it off. Maybe it's the inability of humans to understand things that go too far away from the norm and comfortable. Religion for one: wouldn't the discovery of life on another planet screw up alot of things for religious zealots? There's no reason that this type of discovery should change religion, but it would take some rethinking--and people wish to have these answers handed to them. They don't really want to think philosophically about how the evolving world fits with their views of morality and justice--let alone, creation and how the world came into being. (I'm not really religious, in the god sense of the word. Sounds like old myths to me, but I do like MORALS LOL If only more people had them, instead of using their religions to persecute others.)

If there was something out there that already found us, I'm not quite sure they'd want to talk to such an ignorant species as us. LOL Take, for instance, that most people WANT to be the only ones, no matter how depressing a thought that is--whether they say so or not, they feel more comfortable in the thought that god created man and everything belongs to us. Looking at ourselves in the same sense, only recently in our long history on this earth have we even begun to become civilized; but, we still make the same mistakes. In this country alone: Women had to fight for basic rights, Blacks had to fight for basic rights, and now, Gays are having to fight for basic rights! We have to actively choose who should be allowed to do the things that others can. It's not freedom or opportunity. Freedom is a club that frankly some people haven't been allowed to join, yet. They keep having debates wanting to change the constitution to make it illegal for gays to marry, so that no state can make their own law allowing it (I heard it was in response to the judge in CA that was allowing gays to marry). Now don't get me wrong, but wasn't the constitution written to create EQUALITY? I think that was the main idea behind it, but maybe I'm just fuckin' ignorant.

(WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.)

This was what our entire government was based on. This is our nation's creed! Nowhere in the constitution do you see: Blacks can NOT be married, Women will NEVER vote. The Constitution wasn't written to take away rights and liberty, but to form a base to create it with! Take the word Unconstitutional. It means unfair, unequal, and unjust. So our Constitution must have been written with the express intrest of maintaining equality and justice, and to not create a world where 2nd-class citizens exist and to be given fair rights among our peers. No nobility, no serf! When gays are not allowed to have the same opportunities and rights of their straight counterparts, they are made into these 2nd-class citizens. People to be amused by in over-characterization on t.v.; and, to be disgusted by in real life. Blacks endured the same thing (can we say seperate bathrooms, drinking fountains, and riding in the back of the bus?). The stupid black servant in a huge white family's manorhouse, cooking. Sure, there are black people who are dumb, sure some black people may be cooks, but they were portrayed as people wanted to see them. They wanted to feel superior. Women staying at home, women who never question the husband's judgement, the women who get punched across the face for standing up in what they believe. Gays have the same thing. Gay men on T.V. are portrayed as feminine, overly sexual hairdressers and decorators; Lesbians are potrayed as masculine, short-haired businesswomen and mechanics. While some gay people might be one or more of these things, it is no more so than straight people.

So, why do people fight so dearly to keep gay people out of sight? From some polls on the internet, out of the people who chose to respond, roughly half of the participants were against gay marriage. There are a variety of reasons why someone may be against gay rights--spanning many views, all the way from religion to personal preference (read as: not understanding, because they don't want to understand.) My favorite point to argue on is the statement that "this is the way it has alwayz been, so we shouldn't change it--2nd only to "homosexuality is a sin", which is just dumb for more than one reason (seperation of church and state; love=sin?). So, here are some amendments to show how things can CHANGE. LOL So, here's a visual account of liberation evolving in the United States--Jimmy-Style!!!

Amendment XIII [Abolition of Slavery (1865)]
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.


Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

((The Constitution was signed in 1787. That'z 78 years before slavery was abolished. I'm sure there were alot of people that wanted to keep slaves, and would've loved to make it unconstitutional to take away their "property"))

Amendment XV [Rights Not to Be Denied on Account of Race (1870)]
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.


Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

((You don't have to work for me, but you still can't vote for another 5 years!!! We're still waiting for the women tho. NOW GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN AND COOK ME SOME BACON, BITCH!))

Amendment XVIII [Prohibition (1919)]
Pretty much means no beer... It was a sad 14 years between this amendment and Amendment XXI in 1933.... So many ugly people didn't get laid for sooo long... HA HA

Amendment XIX [Women's Right to Vote (1920)
It took a year of detox for our gov. to sober up and realize why the women voter turnout sucked... ((Women had to wait an amazing 133 years after the constitution was signed, before they were heard by their drunk husbands.))

Amendment XXI [Repeal of Prohibition (1933)]
Men, having to listen to their wives bitch about who THEY are gonna vote for and why they should vote for the same person, began to drink, again.

Amendment XXVI [Right to Vote at Age 18 (1971)]
Yes, the tales of grandparents burning their depends on the Washington Monument lawn have long been forgotten,... thankfully! *holds his nose*

So, looking at our constitution, there's still enuff room for everyone to discriminate against gays, so why can't they have marriage? Why do all alcoholics need to be straight? LOL j/k

Really, though, why do we have to fight so hard for every bit of equality? Why do we hold other groups at bay and refuse to let them be human? If I wanted to marry another man, I would do it anyway. It is about love, and just taking that vow and having my family there in loving support--happy for the same reasons as if I married a girl (which I have no doubt they would be, because they are such great and loving people)--would be all that I really, truely needed inside; but, the fact that this sort of thing could even be fought against is completely unjust, unequal, and unconstitutional. Do gays have to defend their rights for another hundred years before society begins to recognize its pattern and we quit making mistakes?