No problems with gay marriage here, although I'm puzzled by this urge to emulate institutionalised, bourgeois heterosexual relationships. But I can see the rationale behind it as it enables legal and perhaps financial security for each partner. After all, straight marriages are not all about love either and never have been. The still existing concept of marriage as practiced in the West is relatively young and combines romantic love with economic security. Many other cultures do not take the romantic aspect into account at all which is why in such cases marriage is simply arranged, often among closest relatives. At least in the West, where divorce rates are high, marriage is increasingly looked at as a dated concept of relationship and cohabitation. In other words, it is considered as a remnant of a more conservative cultural and economic baggage. If that is the case, why is it so important to gay couples? The kitsch associated with weddings seems to play a big role, too. But like I said, there is an economic rationale behind marriage and if it helps gay people to more legal security, I support it. However, things tend to cross the frame of the rational when they insist on adopting children. Now that is an imitation of heterosexual family life limiting on absurdity. I understand that it is better for a child to be raised by two caring gay parents than to grow up in an orphanage but I think it is important for a child's development to be raised by a father and a mother. Especially a mother cannot be replaced. But in the end, having a parent is better than none. I'm not against child adoption by homosexuals but merely curious as to why so many gay couples feel the need to emulate "traditional" families, yet insist on their difference in almost every other aspect of social life, always emphasising their minority lifestyle and status when it's associated with special attention (just like many women care more about the wedding spectacle than marriage) and perhaps privileges.
As for the current aggressive LGBTQ+ campaign, people should follow the money and not blame it on a gay lobby. The entire diversity issue is forced upon our societies by a globalised, yet still predominantly Western Capital. The old borders and barriers have long become obsolete and obstructive to its global profits and extraction capabilities. That is even more true for its anti-racism campaigns. They are not sincere but the result of pure calculation. The liberal classes associated with such aggressive policies are still infested with racists, yet they are pointing their fingers of accussation at the lower classes, also to prevent any discourse about social inequality and to shift it to matters of identity. Also noticeable is the reframing of words like social, especially in the US where it is more associated with identity issues than economic realities. All this "drag queens in kindergartens" stuff is aimed at shaping public discourse and diverting from more important issues that are common to all humans, of all races and sexual or gender identities. We are not to share what unites us. We're supposed to emphasise our differences until we start inventing separate identities for each of our body parts.
But most of this doesn't work in the Global South where most people don't have the time and luxury to think about these issues because they're busy surviving. Many who arrive in Europe or the West in general, bring their old beliefs with them, beliefs that are not compatible with what we find acceptable here. Most of the homophobia and mysoginy today is practically imported from Muslim countries. At least in Europe. Yet globalised, woke Capital, in its greed for more cheap and hopefully skilled labour (which it doesn't get with those migrants because their ultimate goal is to get into the welfare system and a good chunk are basically illiterate), keeps pushing for more mass immigration from parts of the world where gay people are hanged and stoned.
. Particularly if one of the partners snores (not me). My parents marriage only lasted 25 years because my mother died of cancer at the tender age of 51 of ovarian cancer.
