How forumites have evolved (or not) on equal marriage

[Velasco]

Gay marriage is one of the least important big issues in American politics.

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Yes, that's explicit enough. Even when to some people same-sex marriage is not a matter of life and death, it has enough entity for anyone who believes in the equality of the individuals to the eyes of the law and similar trifles.

[Velasco]

Excuse me if I think poverty, the unmaking of the Welfare State, massive tax evasion, the complete unfairness of the education, health care or judicial systems, the fate of undocumented immigrants, inequalities and discrimination of all sorts against all sorts of groups (including LGBT) to be more important that that single issue of marriage. How heartless I must be!

I get your point but, why making same-sex marriage a trivial issue as for some statements one could infer (even if it's not intentional)? It doesn't help very much to the just causes that you have mentioned, in my opinion.

[Velasco]

I'm not making it a trivial issue, but can't I say that I think some fellow progressives are ranking it too high in their order of priorities? It's great that society is marching on on these issues and you can count on me to support any further progress, but in my opinion that's only a fairly minor satisfaction compared to all the things that remain f**ked up in the world.

Of course I can't imagine you against such advances. I only meant that I had the impression that certain people might interpretate that some posts in this thread (not only yours) are trivializing the issue. Same-sex marriage is not on the top of my list, if we talk about things that remain f***up in our wonderful world. Such criticism was made here when Zapatero was among the living persons (politically speaking), now that you mention it. I'm afraid there were reasons that made such criticism correct, in a sense. Still, I'd be careful about comparisons.