I made art

[jetpack_monkey]

So I'm trying to suss out how anybody could call gay marriage "discrimination." As sort of a guide I made, in GIMP, a very rough outline of what I think the individual viewpoints on the debate are, using stick figures that make xkcd look like Van Gogh. Let me know if I'm missing something or if I've inadvertently become really really offensive.





Yes, those are jetpacks in the third image.

Comments

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Yes. This.

[theheartsfriend.livejournal.com]

*Bows* Your greatness has reached a new level of awesome.

[kenobi.livejournal.com]

i <3 it

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

Excellent.

I will say that I *think* that the people who are claiming it's "oppression" or "discrimination" are likely religious people who have not been properly educated. From things I have read, it seems that a major point of opposition to gay marriage is that religious people think laws will be passed that force their religions to perform or acknowledge gay marriages.

Which makes no sense given the whole separation of church and state thing, but there hasn't been enough education to correct the scare tactics from the anti gay marriage brigade.

[diannelamerc.livejournal.com]

I agree, I think there's a lot of this "but we don't want to marry gay people! our church doesn't believe in it! If you make us, that's discrimination!"

And these are some of the people who most seem not to have ever really had the concept of "separation of church and state"

They believe their ("good") beliefs should be made the law for everyone, and thus naturally and without thinking assume that you are trying to do the same with your "bad" beliefs. It's a "there can be only one!" mindset that doesn't do much acknowledging of "let live" towards others and thus they don't expect anyone newly gaining power to let them just "live" either.

*sigh* so much education needed...

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

I agree, I think there's a lot of this "but we don't want to marry gay people! our church doesn't believe in it! If you make us, that's discrimination!"

And it would be wrong, if that's what anyone was trying to do. But they're not. There needs to be an informational campaign to get the truth out there.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

There is, I think. It just doesn't have the same funding. Intolerance, for some reason, gets more people going than common sense.

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

Which is a sad, sad commentary on our society.

[coltsbane.livejournal.com]

<3

[darklightluna.livejournal.com]

*thumbs up*

[sideofzen.livejournal.com]

Where is my jetpack.

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

That is nifty x 12.

[kajivar]

\o/

[kittycat22.livejournal.com]

Heeheeheee. VERY awesome! :D

[diannelamerc.livejournal.com]

Is very cool :)

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I heart you.

[fevervignettes.livejournal.com]

Nice.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha