Vote for People to be Happy

Timothy Kincaid at Box Turtle Bulletin ("The Most Effective Campaign") pointed out a nice, personal story from the Fresno Bee about a woman in California named Renee DeMusiak. Now, Ms. DeMusiak was what one might call a marriage traditionalist until rather recently when she changed her mind, largely because of her feelings about her boss, Michael, who, by the way, will soon marry his long-time partner John.

Yes, there is a lesson in there about visibility and living out and honesty and all sorts of stuff, but I was most interested in this remark from Ms. DeMusiak after she explained how she's changed her mind, how she hasn't found the right man for herself yet, how happy all the gay couples seem who come into the shop, and how

I know religion is really going to come down on this one, but I just don’t think I can be opposed [to marriage equality] any more. I vote for people to be happy.

What a remarkably refreshing and novel thing to say: "I vote for people to be happy."

It makes you wonder, doesn't it, about all those very self-righteous anti-gay people who want you to vote for their anti-gay marriage amendment to protect something or other that they're not very clear about themselves. Ask yourself: will voting for these self-righteous anti-gay people make them happy? I don't really see it myself, but as I've observed before, they're really only happy when they're miserable.

On the whole, then, voting in favor of marriage equality for same-sex couples can only increase the number of happy people since those sad-sacks are pretty much going to be miserable whatever we do.

"I vote for people to be happy." Who would not vote for people to be happy, really? It's so human, so American, so constitutional!

I think it should be the motto and the campaign: Support Marriage Equality. Vote for People to be Happy!

Posted on June 15, 2008 at 12.14 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Current Events, Faaabulosity

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Monday, 16 June 2008 at 00.49
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    It's very good indeed, right up there with voting to be fair.

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