I am not one to pay attention to/care about the goings-on of Hollywood, but it's time to talk about Kim Kardashian. The woman has no credentials other than a sex tape and has done nothing but purchase a bunch of useless consumer goods with her father's money in order to pose annoyingly in front of eager cameras, but I am not here to ponder why she is famous --she is and will continue to be and there is nothing we can do about it-- I am here to pose a question: Why isn't gay marriage legal?
Gay marriage will not hurt our economy, deplete the Earth of natural resources, or start futile wars overseas. In fact the only outcome of gay marriage would be same-sex couples getting married, so what's the harm?
The main argument I have had thrown at me upon asking this question involves the 'sanctity' of marriage. It's an antique platform but it's tried and true, and don't get me wrong, I firmly believe that no one should enter marriage lightly, but my counter is this: how are narcissistic, border-line sociopathic straight couples such as Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries keeping the sacrament of marriage sacred?
Every year another couple composing of two vapid talentless hacks gets married for five minutes only to call it off and monopolize this country's attention span for a good month. Why do we give these people the satisfaction of the spotlight, and more importantly why aren't the same politicians condemning gay marriage for reasons concerning morality calling out these vacuous starlets for abusing the institution of marriage year after year? If you are going to base an argument on false morality at least be consistent with your rhetoric.
As far as I'm concerned, if marriage has any hope of remaining sacred it lies in the gay community. Being gay isn't immoral. It never was. It never will be, and government has no authority on morality, nor should it have any authority on saying what morality is. Love is the only moral authority, and it knows no boundaries between gender, race, creed, or sexual orientation.
