After years of being in the closet (from Catholic to questioning to agnostic…) I am no longer timid about the fact that I am an atheist. I used to define myself as an antitheist, but let’s face it, organized religion (which is really where my beef lies) is too engrained in most societies to be truly eradicated. So…I stick with plain old atheist. No need to be mean to people because they don’t believe the same things I do, right?
However.
The marriage equality issue is one place that I simply cannot stand by silently. It’s a human rights issue, and it’s positively shameful that the law of the United States allows itself to be defined and its lawmakers bullied by a bunch of fucking mythology. That’s the basic summary of my feelings on the subject.
It’s kind of ironic that I linked to a Christian blogger above, but I did it because she posted her very honest (and as a “mommy blogger”, risky) viewpoint of same-sex couplehood: she supports it. While the comments have been mostly civil (which is totally impressive, I must say) she knows that making her opinion public means she’s going to lose readers. It could affect her current and future advertising opportunities, and, in the end, it could bring quite a bit of trouble and stress to her life. I love that she stuck her neck out and wrote this. So many personal bloggers do NOT “keep it real”; they cater their content to what they think their audiences want. Sound familiar?
Between the wonderful feedback and encouragement I received from some very dear friends and the inspiration I feel from Melissa’s post, I have made the decision to keep all my content here in this URL, fluff, controversy, and everything inbetween. I hope you keep reading.
