MsJacquiiC On Gay Marriage

A friend of mine from Highschool, Melissa, posted the Wanda Sykes on Gay Marriage video on Facebook earlier today... I was inspired to essay. For those of you don't know - Ms. Sykes is a brilliant Comedienne - I've always enjoyed her comedy and have nothing but love for her. Her comedy set is below - My response (which started out as a paragraph response for the Facebook post LOL) is below it - Commentary appreciated = Debate? Sure why not...? Anyway - As the thread title reads: MsJacquiiC on Gay Marriage ==> Enjoy!

Jacquii.






Ha! I love Wanda - she is one of the realest Comediennes out there! And what she says is so true! Why the hell would anyone (read: anti gay marriage bigots) be so horridly concerned about shyt which has no effect on their own lives?

Inadvertantly Wanda's comedy set touches on a point which should arguably be the only concern driving the great marriage debate. Unfortunately it is a point that has not been used very often by equal marriage rights supporters and has been widely ignored by most all the anti gay marriage folks on the right of the political spectrum: L-O-V-E --- It's interesting that when these self-described God-fearing, Born-again Christians are holding tight to their Judeo Christian values, debating the concept of marriage, the word "love" never enters the debate. No doubt the very definition of love -- a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person -- would add a brazenly essential momentum-sway to the discourse.

More interesting is the fact that in the embracing of "the sanctity of the institution of marriage" - Even the concept of truelove -- a sweetheart; a truly loving or loved person -- has never been brought up by anti gay marriage proponents. Not once. Ever. The only principle that Jesus ever espoused is love; It never enters the conservative Christian, traditional marriage debate? How convenient these anti gay marriage folk pick-n-select which Christian concepts to follow, which principles are quality and which can be hidden away in the subconscience. One would think love in all its sparkly wonder would rear its fabulosity, transcending to the forefront of all Christian ideology...

Instead: Sanctioned bigotry.

For this reason alone, I think modernday Christianity a lot of times is a farce which could never be recognized as anything of substance by its very own Messiah, for the principle of uninhibited and unconditional love is all too often missing. Or more accurately: It's missing whenever gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgendered is brought into the equation. Organized bigotry sanctioned by the church is not pretty. Ever.

"Oh Love - Where for art thou?" calls a mysterious voice in the night. "Shrouded in an acute & blatantly prejudiced, political selection process," whispers back the East Wind, the West Wind giggling at such an audacious statement. "Oh bad politics. Decrepid red tape."

Hmmm - Couldn't this very-well explain why western democracies (the US in particular obviously) have the highest divorce rate in the history of the world? We've forgotten how to allow unconditional love for each other? Unconditional love is wound up in the pseudo-Christian redtape of tainted politics?

Sex -- such a taboo in our societies -- is too often misconstrued as love, when love (in the case of marriage obviously) is "legally" defined and erroneously sanctioned as a union between one man and one woman. How trite; Sad day even when the bumbling idiots (aka Paternity Test Episode Stars) of the Maury Povich show are the shining examples of who's allowed to legally marry. You know the ones right? The ones arguing about who the "Baby Daddy" is or isn't because Ms. Thang has successfully copulated with several young, verile idiots... The laughably raucous fray of paternity tests is like an urban circus while the camera tapes its embarrassing testimony of the worst heterosexual trashing of the "sanctity of the institution of marriage" ever imaginable. Such an inevitably depressing straight-drama. And THESE people are allowed to legally marry whilst others fight to have the same rights? Hmmm...

It's a happy day - when when each and every citizen around the world is allowed to embrace the one they love and who loves them back, and have that love dually recognized and respected within the law of the land.

Meh - I stop rambling now and end with this final sentence which I hold tight to my breast like a deep breath: Wanda Sykes is a true genius!

Jacquii.