May 16, 2008
Gay Marriage will Ruin Californian Marriage

Jacob Dickerman | Bio

I hope you're damn proud of yourselves, gay people in California! I hope you're proud of destabilizing the balance of California marriage! Did you, for one second, think of all those people who would have married people of the same gender for years but didn't because they didn't want to destabilize the state? So what did those people do instead? They married people of the opposite sex. And what was wrong with that? A couple loveless marriages every here and there, at least people were married.

Think about what you're doing to marriage in California. Because how can marriage be quite as special when people have twice as many options? Is Ben and J-Lo's marriage still as important now that gay marriage is no longer illegal in California? What about Britney and Jason Allen Alexander? Or Lisa Marie and Nick? People...what about Nick and Jessica? Is that now meaningless? Months of inane chatter by a couple whose father got them to sign their lives and their failing marriage over to a TV crew...that means so much less now that he could go marry Justin instead.

How about The Bachelor? How about Joe Millionaire? The Bachelorette? Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? How can these shows have any meaning at all if gay marriage is no longer illegal? These are sacred shows, people! These are shows about our sacred institution! These are deep shows that ask poignant questions about the nature of our society, all because marriage is strictly heterosexual! You know what would happen on a gay The Bachelor? I'll tell you. It would be meaningless. Because the contestants could just as easily fall for each other as for the bachelor! The bachelor would not be the only male on an island of heterosexual females, and that's why marriage is more sacred if you're forced to marry someone of the opposite sex!

California, you're ruining the good name of Californian marriage. Keep marriage out of the hands of gay people, and where it belongs, in the hands of studio executives.