No taxation without equal rights!

California, Arizona and Florida passed bans on gay marriage Tuesday. In California the vote was about 52% in favor, a number that would be even higher if you removed the percentage of gay voters from those against. Nationally the percentage of gay voters is estimated to be somewhere between 4% and 10%. The low end, 4%, is based on the number of people who answer affirmatively to exit poll questions about recent same-sex partners. A fairly limited definition, even if it weren’t subject to underreporting. It is analogous to asking people if they’ve had sex with a member of the opposite sex in the last year and assuming that everyone who answers, “No,” is gay. Ten percent is the generally accepted guess.

Personally I am pretty tired of paying into education, child welfare, and other family programs, from which a majority of heterosexuals feel gay persons should be excluded. They deny our families. Why should we support theirs? Most data indicates that the average income of a gay person is higher than the national average. That means we are contributing more than 4-10% to government budgets. How would education programs look without our money?

One of the reasons that eighteen year-olds have the right to vote in the U.S. is because older voters realized that if someone was old enough to die for their country they were old enough to vote. When are heterosexuals going to accept that if our money is good enough to support their family institutions we are good enough to participate in those institutions? Do we have to withhold taxes? Go on strike? All gay people refuse to work until our relationships are given equal recognition? How well would your community function if 4-10% of the teachers, police officers, fire fighters, emts, trash collectors, doctors, nurses, clerks, etc. stayed home?