Green Same-Sex Marriages the Next Big Thing?
We wouldn’t be talking about it if it were not for the fact that a senior member of the Green Party of the United States once equated the agitation for same-sex marriage in the United States to an hollow supremacist (pardon) Supreme Court ruling in 1857 that upheld that the black man was mere property and had not rights as the white man.
Those were the days when morals as they were then known were riding high and there was not much of the politically-correct language pretense we see in the world today. The H-word is gone, now there is same-sex relationships; the N-word is gone too, now there are proud African-Americans forever patriotic to the beloved country - which is a good thing for all humanity.
In 2004, David Cobb, the Green Party presidential candidate for that year’s election said this in reaction to an earlier decision by the California Supreme Court to void same-sex marriage licenses issued by Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco:
“The right to marry is an equal rights issue. Courts have historically been wrong and socially behind the times and the California Supreme Court is no exception. The Dred Scott decision said a black man was property and had no rights that a white man was bound to respect. In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Court upheld Jim Crow segregation laws. The Supreme Court also upheld state laws preventing women from voting until the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, superceding all those prohibitive state laws. Like these earlier decisions, the decision of the California Supreme Court is an affront to human rights and human dignity and will not stand the test of time.”
More than 150 years since the landmark slavery ruling, Californian gays were this month elated with a court win on their “civil right” to marry whomever they want, boy or girl, following in the footsteps of Massachusetts. Even Governor David Patterson (a black man) of New York has reportedly issued a memo ordering state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed in states and countries where they are legal.
The Green Party affirms the rights of all individuals to freely choose intimate partners, regardless of their sex, gender, or sexual orientation.
That said, is it time to really green same-sex weddings as the next big thing in the sunny state and in Massachusetts? Will we be seeing green same-sex weddings in the entire United States when the time comes? Or green Gay Pride Parades on the streets of the land of opportunity? Will this concept be the next big export of America to the world?
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I think we all have to embrace modern ethics and say that everyone is entitled to a wedding; and that wedding should be green and ethical.
Consider it another US idea imported to the UK!
well let talk about stupid crap yea i said crap when well u wake up who cares if it green white blue or black same sex marriage wrong wrong wrong where does it say adam marry mark or eve marry martha no it say GOD MADE adam and eve come one wake up america now
Considering everyone’s right to equal rights in the States, I certainly hope that our backwards laws on this issue will recognize same-sex marriages across the board soon. I am a proud California native and happy to see this coming to fruition in my home state.
However, I’d hardly call the desire for same-sex marriage equality an American export. When I went to Europe in 2002, I coincidentally ended up in Berlin on the day of their Pride Parade. The enormous central park promenade was absolutely covered with men and women enjoying the freedom of one sacred day when they don’t have to worry about dealing with anyone staring.
Here, in South Korea, there is not much cultural recognition of same-sex couples, but in Seoul and Busan, there are gay scenes, and no doubt, there are people who desire to be married.
Overall, I just think it’s important to note that when the United States recognizes same-sex marriages as a whole, which I believe won’t happen for a long time, I would certainly not call any ensuing influence of tolerance/acceptance of same-sex couples or marriages in any other country an “export”.