Gay rights in Russia.

The people in the West tell us that Russian law is discriminatory against gays organizing themselves into a minority political movement. That is true! So what? What is not true is that Russia is anti gay. I doesn’t take brains to know the difference, but most people in the west – don’t. Why? Because Obama took the issue to the extreme in order to get elected. An American child who wants to be raised by a mother and a father can’t do so if his gay father marries another man. In Russia he can! As a gay person in Russia you are free to do your own thing as long as you don’t organize as a political movement. What’s wrong with that? I know other political movements in history that shouldn’t have been organized. Political sexuality is as corrupt as any other political movement, why do you need it?. Sexual behavior as a political movement will one day backfire.  Love does not fit as a political movement. The Russian got it and so should you. The fact that the Russian society resists your attempt to force it to be like us and accept “gay parades” or “gay marriages” doesn’t make that society anti-gay, it makes it gay neutral as it should be. Keep your American ego or values to yourself and let other cultures be as they wish to be as long as they don’t discriminate against gays as individuals!

FIGHTING OVER A WORD!

I will focus only on the facts about gay marriage hoping that highly emotional people will cool off so they may see that their behavior is similar to Don Chiote De La Manche fighting wind mills. They are fighting only over a word and they don’t realize it! Gay couples living together bound by a legal civil union laws have the same legal obligations and benefits as marriage couples, except for a word. They are fighting all the way to the supreme count over a word. Shakespeare would call it “much ado about nothing,” and classic psychology will call it “creating cultural excitement to avoid boredom.” I call it “avoiding the real issue.”

Let’s continue with the facts. Gay couples feel love just like heterogeneous couples. They must have the right to live together as marriage couples without the use of the word because the essence of the word “marriage” in human history meant “creating the next generation,”  and never meant creating the possibility for the cessation of the human race.

The issue of raising children is simple too.  A happy marriage has always been a  natural condition for a man and a woman to raise health and happy children with all the opportunities that culture can provides.”  That opportunity is gone for 80% for the people, although individuals can work it out. Most of us live a life of “quiet desperation” as the poem says.

The last issue about it is not religion because religion as a “human perception of God” is way off the mark. The real issue is “how God will take it?” The fact is that we don’t know but we will know in a 100 years!

Gay Marriage: Yes or No?

The issue is debated in the US Supreme Court (USSC) today and tomorrow. Now, I know you have your opinion, but I want you to get sophisticated about the human decision-making process involved because sooner or later what others decide affects your pocket-book, relationships, health and happiness in the United States, the greatest country on earth. Knowing that fact, you can fairly assume that the USSC will not vote Yes today or tomorrow because although these 9 fellows can legally force all 50 States in the Union to accept gay marriage, they will not do so.  It cannot be morally or ethically acceptable. Since the USSC members are humans, not just legalistic entities, they will vote NO or vote to spin the issue.

What is the real issue?

If you are smart you may not be surprised to know that the real issue is not gay rights. Gays already have rights. They have the rights to have a civic union, which has all the marriage rights except the legal right to use the label marriage! Thus, the real issue is not the legal rights that marriage would convey on gay couples. That rights are already conveyed by laws with all kinds of labels: Common law, co-habitation, civic union, and a host of other laws that give gay couples equal rights under the law. The USSC today is dealing with a legal trivia – a missing word!

Any psychologist can tell you that if you fight intensely over a label, not a substance, you are really fighting over a psychological identity problem, not a legal case. I think that the USSC will recognise that fact because they are smart dudes and will not pass a favorable judgment today. This psychological issue belongs elsewhere, not in the legal domain, and I doubt that it belongs in the political domain either. Whar right would 51% of the people in the State of California have to impose their will on the other 49%?

Here is the simple solution (as always, your loyal servant):

Since gay couples have the same rights that marriage couples have except for the use of the word marriage on legal documents, they can use the word “marriage” on their religious institution’s certificate. This way the only objection will come from God, and he works through Karma, a mysterious law above.