Just One of Those Things

Let's say that you, who ever you are, because of who you are, cannot, by law, sign a contract. Any kind of contract. You can't buy or sell a house, you can't get a loan, you can't rent a place to live or rent a place to someone else, you can't lease or buy a car, you can't get married, you can't even write a check, you can't do anything that involves your signature and some kind of contractual obligation. How much of your life would be impacted by that law?

Now let's say that you can sign something I will call a "loop-tee-loop". Turns out a loop-tee-loop is EXACTLY the same as a contract. So, you can sign a loop-tee-loop to buy a car or a house, or get married or write a check. It's called a loop-tee-loop, that's all. Same thing. Just don't call it a contract. It MUST be referred to as a loop-tee-loop.

What or how does that make you feel? Do you feel like you're being treated unfairly? Do you feel like this whole thing is ridiculous? Because if there is no difference between a contract and a loop-tee-loop, why not just call everything a contract (or loop-tee-loop, if you prefer). Just seems patently stupid, huh?

So why can't we heterosexuals share the word "marriage"? What is it about the word "marriage" that makes it such a special word that only heterosexual people may use it? Those people, those same-sex people have "civil union", why can't they be satisfied with that? I mean, it's exactly the same thing, right?

Hey, here's an idea. Since it seems that the word "marriage" has some special powers, and it's turning out that my god-given right to a contract called "marriage" will not be happening for me, I won't be needing my own personal right to the word "marriage". So I'd like to go ahead and give my right to the word to a nice same-sex couple who needs it, since they can't have it under any equal protection law. Of course, it would probably be a good thing to write up a loop-tee- loop for it, you know, for everyone's equal protection.