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The idea that Americans have changed their minds on same sex marriage in the shadows of the Respect for Marriage Act likely passing into federal law is not exactly progress. Why? This very well rounded and well done Yahoo 360 take on the topic screams of internalized heterocentrism (I did not use the word homophobia intentionally). In summary, it is the law that protects same sex couples in the case of a supreme court reversal of a previously passed law... anticipatory in other words. Here, I would say that the law to protect is a farce. Prior abortions are not crimes since Roe was overturned. Prior marriages are not going to become illegal after the fact either. And here's a point that I think was missed in this Yahoo piece.... those who overturned Roe specifically indicated in their writings that this was not a precedent to be useful in same sex marriage being reversed by the court - as one example. Fear mongering happens at all sides. Plus this kind of morally charged, politically charged stuff distracts the citizenry from focussing on other things: people being able to pay their bills, why health insurance is not preventing medically related bankruptcies, why education is not free to people, how come food insecurity is rampant, why banks are thriving when most are living one check to the next and why the simplified tax code is now at 77,000 pages and growing. I'm married and I'm protected. I'm glad about that. But largely this whole thing is a distracting idea that government is working for its people. And it's not.
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