Everything I needed to know about Love, I learned from The Beatles

"You say you want a revolution Well, you know we all want to change the world" - Revolution (The Beatles)

In light of New York's decision to allow gay marriage I've finally found something to write about that I have a passion for. Beware, here’s where I’m going to come off sounding slightly douche-y. I’m already sick of hearing about gay’s right to marry. Now, having said my douche bag of a statement, allow me to back peddle a bit.

What I can’t wrap my mind around is how this is such an issue? Seriously, what is going on in peoples minds that makes them think, you know what? Fuck people in love marrying. We wont have it.

"All you need is love, love is all you need" - All you need is Love (The Beatles)

Marriage is not what it once was; it hasn’t been for quite some time. It would not be far from the truth to say that many of our laws are dictated by what used to be considered moral and normal.

I guess what I’m really getting at is, welcome to the fucking real world people. We’re out of the dark ages, women no longer have to be in the kitchen, black people can in fact get a job and dare I say it? Become president. The world is evolving; men no longer beat a woman over the head with a stone and drag them back to the cave (well, most don’t I’m sure some where a moron has done this.)

For people of the same sex, asking for the right to a civil union or marriage is the right to declare and establish a loving and long-term relationship with another person. It is allowing them the ability to raise a family and adhere to ideals of a marriage as any other couple would. They are not asking not for special rights, but rather the same to be able to have a say when it comes to the medical emergencies of a partner. They are trying to live their life as any heterosexual would in the pursuit of happiness and is that not what the constitution states as one of our inalienable rights?

Oh yea, I’ll tell you something, I think you’ll understand, When I say that something, I want to hold your hand - I Want To Hold Your Hand (The Beatles)

As a relatively progressive Roman Catholic (or used to be), my religion is against the marriage between two people of the same sex. It however, doesn’t make me any less catholic to be able to recognize the change and movement of our nation. There are many things stated in the bible that we don’t adhere to for example, in the book of Deuteronomy 22:22 it states “If a married person has sex with someone else's husband or wife, the Bible commands that both adulterers be stoned to death.” Further evidence is in Mark 12:18-17, “If a man dies childless, his widow is ordered by biblical law to have intercourse with each of his brothers in turn until she bears her deceased husband a male heir.” These are among several things that were held true in biblical times, which we do not perceive as being acceptable in the modern world.

Dear Prudence open up your eyes, dear Prudence see the sunny skies the wind is low the birds will sing that you are part of everything, Dear Prudence won't you open up your eyes? - Dear Prudence (The Beatles)

Okay, what I’m really saying here is, get your shit together world, we’re changing, we’re moving forward, lets try not to slip back into the dark ages, I’m not that great of a cook, and I have no desire to be a house wife. If I can have that choice as a woman, then everyone should be able to have a choice on whom they marry. Because seriously? I’m tired of this being a problem. And I’m tired of it having to be a triumph when some state decides to get their shit together.

Side note… who saw that coming from Iowa? I mean if Iowa can do it what are the rest of us doing with our lives.

“Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.” ~James Baldwin