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Entry: Gay Marriage Sucks! Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/gay_marriage_sucks#31728 Post contents: Mr. Raimondo, this is a wonderful article. It elegantly expresses the reasons why, as a transgender woman, I cannot support the fight for gay marriage and why I have more and more trouble in identifying myself as a feminist, a label I once wore proudly. What that means is that any sort of activism has all but ended for me. You see, one of the unwritten rules of LGBT activism is that you unquestioningly support gay marriage. That fight will be the Titanic of the LGBT movement, and I don't want to be on a ship that I know is going down. And, one of the unwritten rules of being a feminist seems to be acceptance of the idea that women want the same things men want. Having been on both sides, so to speak, I know that it's not the state of affairs. Of course I don't think gays should go back in the closet or that women should be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. But if you don't subscribe to the shibboleths du jour of the LGBT and feminist movements, those are beliefs people impute to you. In my opinion, governments should not be involved in any way in personal relationships. Legislative bodies have no right to decide who is a couple and to what they're entitled, any more than they should be doling out those entitlements. Of course, the state of the state (smaller) I wish will not come about unless we actually have a country in which the church is seperated from the state and in which we don't have a corporate welfare/warfare state. Sent at: 2008 12 05