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Monday, February 23,
2004
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By
granting same sex marriages, San Francisco's mayor caused
quite a mess in the middle of the American election campaign.
George Bush is most disturbed about this: In his opinion,
it must be clearly established that marriage is a sacred
act between a man and a woman... And to reply to the judges
who are scandalized by the discrimination that homosexual
people undergo, Bush declared that marriage has to be defined
by people and not by courts.
 Exceptionnaly,
I agree, in a way, with Bush: Yes, my dear George, people
have to decide. And in a democracy, if two men or two women
decide to seal their union with a marriage, that's their business
and the society doesn't have to choose for them! It's quite
absurd and unjust to see that two people loving each other
are not respected in the same way, whether they are of the
same sex or not...
I think that many people don't understand a very simple
thing: When two persons want to commit to each other, they
need their love to be positively considered by their fellow
creatures, in short, that their union be approved by others
and respected by the society. What ever gives the society
the right not to favour their happiness when it could be
so easy? To facilitate union between people, to make possible
all that can generate joy, positivity, all that can consolidate
the social bonds and give a statute, an identity to people.
In short, to allow men and women to live life to the full:
Is it the role of the society or not!? Obviously yes, but
too many people are still afraid by Love or obsessed by
the question of sex.
 I'm
not fanatic about marriage, but when
one sees the joy on the faces of those thousands of gays
and lesbians who got married in San Francisco last days,
how can one be shortsighted enough to want a law
prohibiting them from enjoying a basic right?
We are quite a curious society: We want to be open-minded
but we are dreadfully afraid of granting identical rights
to others when they are different. All things considered,
we are obsessed by the norm. We go ahead in well ordered
groups but if a sheep moves away from the flock, he's tried
and illtreated. We watch others constantly, observing their
behavior and scrutinizing their habits: We particularly
like to know what occurs in their intimacy. And when it
bothers us, we hide it carefully to preserve a tolerant
appearance. Shall we be able, one day, when we meet two
people who love each other, to simply share their happiness
and to stop looking in their pants!
Geoffroi
du Chambon
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Same sex marriages in San Francisco: good photos... |
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