Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff responds to bisexual blogger David Benkof who does not support marriage equality for LGBT people. (story)
According to his site, gaysdefendmarriage.com, Benkof believes LGBT people should focus on issues other than gay marriage.
I first wrote about Benkof on United We Stand in May 2008. Mr. Benkof, I have to wonder what exactly you think traditional marriage needs protected from? You claim to be bisexual; if you decided to spend the rest of your life with another man, wouldn't you want to have equal rights?
Anytime you take a specific group of people and tell them they are not entitled to a civil right enjoyed by the majority (regardless of how you justify it) you're creating a 'special right' for the majority.
During some of the most horrific days of the American Revolutionary War, Thomas Paine wrote, "These are the times that try men's [and women's] souls." More than 200 years later, nothing seems closer to the truth for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community of this nation.
'Traditions' must sometimes be broken in favor of progress. Without progress, this nation could still be a colony that uses slave labor, filled with women who cannot hold public office or vote.
I'll end this with two of my favorite quotes:The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. - William H. Borah
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Gay newspaper editor responds to David Benkof's L.A. Times article
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Well said.
Thanks for asking. Marriage needs protection from groups that don't believe in monogamous relationships, for one thing. According to gay.com, only one-third of male-male long-term relationships are sexually exclusive. The overwhelming majority include arrangements that allow one or both partners to have sex outside the relationship. Marriage is supposed to mean a promise of sexual fidelity - even couples in which one partner commits adultery generally agree that such behavior is wrong. If male-male couples can claim they are "married," the meaning of marriage is watered down and no longer means sexual exclusivity is important. I don't want to see that happen.
If I decide to spend the rest of my life with someone, it will be with a woman. I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and that's the only kind of long-term relationship I will consider for myself. If you make a different choice, that's fine. What you do in your bedroom and in your own home is your own business. But please stop trying to force the rest of society to celebrate your choice.
There is no such thing as a "civil right" to "marry" a member of the same sex. The United Nations has said the right to marry involves man-woman unions. The U.S. Supreme Court has never recognized a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage. And even Barack Obama has specifically said he does not believe marriage is a civil right.
You want to fight an American Revolution because same-sex couples in California have all the rights of married couples in that state but have their feelings hurt by having the government use the term "domestic partnership" instead of marriage? Go ahead. The U.S. troops will probably be too busy laughing at you to actually mow you down for your insurrection.
Finally, I think it's funny that you quote an American politician who is most famous for trying to talk sense with the Nazis. Your fixation on being treated as "equal" no matter who you hurt makes me wonder if trying to talk sense with you is as futile.
If you want more examples of ways "marriage equality" hurts marriage, you can visit www.GaysDefendMarriage.com.
this david person is only wanting attention. what a total fucking idiot he is.
What an idiot... His wife sits home while he visits the local gloey hole scene or the dark corners of the public park learking and waiting for the ol mighty cock! Bisexual people can not and never will be satisfied with one sex, be it male or female. So we can only assume how much sex this freak is having outside the institution of marriage.. Or shall we call it our civil right. Punks like this scream out hate because they are so enclosed in the closet and want to be set free, but have the fear of it, so they say no Iim bisexual but will only have a relationship with a women... I say bull fucking shit dude, get real and grow some god dam BALLS...
What a low balling dumb ass.
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