Who Cares About Your Feelings, Ted?

 

Sen. Ted Cruz says the Supreme Court was “clearly wrong” and “overreaching” when it legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. https://t.co/OvGEsxKP1n

— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 17, 2022

So, if two consenting adults of the same sex have exactly the same rights as two consenting adults as the opposite sex do to form a contract that forms the foundation of a lifelong commitment to one another or the start of a family, that is materially different how, I wonder. It seems like perfectly acceptable equal treatment under the law to me. Ted Cruz thinks he knows how this is different in some substantial way. But he's the same guy who let Trump call his wife out as fugly. He's the same guy whose very pointedly Seven Mountains supporting dad probably did not kill JFK, who is expected by loyal Qanon idiots to show up in Dealey Plaza any moment now. He's very much a Dominionist himself.

It really seems to me like denying the right of already accepted households to be treated as married people under the law is a kind of homewrecking. These people have made families. Is Cruz saying their households are invalid? That their children should have other parents? That their love is somehow not the same as the love straight couples have because his little reformation-era translation of an iron age book of bronze age just so stories says so? 

I don't care about Ted Cruz's feelings about gay marriage. He can feel like the Obergefell decision was wrong all he wants to, but when we are talking about human lives, how in the hell is it his business? Who does he think is harmed by other people's pursuit of happiness, and does he even accept the American ideal that all men are created equal? Even all women. Even all-women marriages between two damn women. 

The fact is, marriage is about love. It isn't about sex or sin or some bogeyman Ted Cruz and his bent little religious animus wants to call it. I am straight married, and Ted Cruz wouldn't find a fault in my childfree household except for our very liberal and religion-free attitudes. Would he? But how are we different from two men getting on, or two women? Are you saying Pete Buttigeig and Chasten and their lovely twins are somehow against the law? 

Are Ellen and Portia against the law or any other example of gay long standing relationships? And how other than because some version of someone's god said so are we supposed to deny all the LGBT relationships of long duration we know of, which are beautiful and unique and plentiful--and how is trying to end that not some kind of home-wrecking?  Trying to destroy the lives that gay people have given their blood and tears to create. People have fought for their right to just be normal and love one another. 

How dumb is it people ever had to fight for the right to just do that one, benign thing? 

Fuck you, Homewrecker Ted! I don't care about your feelings, but those of the households you want to destroy! You should not have the right to judge these relationships, and the Court shouldn't have jurisdiction to tell whole families their lived experiences of joy and love and realness were somehow fake. No federal law would bar these people their relationships if equality under the law should pertain. I am so dubious that this should even be thrown to states' rights, but this Court already has shown its hand, and I hate it.