Comments on: Equal Marriage Rights and Photography

By: Bruidsreportage

Bruidsreportage — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:40:05 +0000

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By: new jersey photographer

new jersey photographer — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:29:25 +0000

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By: Eriik Curtis

Eriik Curtis — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:15:07 +0000

@Paul Conrad, I am not cheating on my spouse or in the closet. I am not in favor of same sex marage but at the same time I am not “advocating against it”. What I mean is that I would not go out of my way to oppose it [SSM] but if I were asked my position, I would voice it.

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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:09:26 +0000

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By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:57:45 +0000

Michael!!

What a pleasant surprise to find such a refreshing argument for SSM on the webiste of a fellow photographer (and fellow gay person, I assume!) Bravo! The comments that your post inspired are also fabulous. I will post a link to your site on my FB page and hope that it brings more of those dollars your way — your work is lovely!

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:07:43 +0000

Thank you Dave! and you’re correct, Love is never wrong.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:55:02 +0000

Michael, I hadn’t heard of you or seen your work until today. I got lost in the numbers and cost/benefit argument, but to me it simply boils down to: love is never wrong. However it’s expressed.

By the way, your photos are beautiful.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:08:58 +0000

You may have missed an additional opportunity for photogs to benefit. I read somewhere that, at least in the US, couples are having divorce photo sessions (to celebrate that it’s finally over?). So if gay marriages would break up at about the same rate as straight marriages…

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:20:15 +0000

Michael,

Whether all agree on the details of your economic analysis or not, one point is beyond dispute: the amount of money involved is enormous. You made that very clear.

My folks and I are big West Wing fans. The scene you included is one of my personal favorites. I too would vote for Pres. Bartlet any day, if he were a real candidate.

I am a former Christian Fundamentalist/Evangelical/Born Again Christian. My involvement with that movement nearly destroyed my life. It took 17-18 years for me to undo all the damage done to me during the 3-4 years of my intense involvement with the movement during my undergraduate years. I have made many enormous sacrifices as a result of having my life sent so far off course by this colossally destructive, authoritarian, loveless, graceless, mindless, ignorant scourge on humanity. These are harsh words, and it saddens me that every one of these criticisms is well-earned. I wish to God it were not so. I could cry when I think of how this movement destroys individuals, families, and communities.

There is now a counter movement of ex-fundamentalists who are getting on with their lives and trying to heal from this devastating experience. For example, see Marlene Winell’s book, “Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion.” Bishop John Shelby Spong, one of my favorite thinkers, has written much on the disservice done to the Christian community done by extremists who would hijack the Bible with their unthinking and uninformed hyper-literal interpretation.

Michael, I commend you for taking a firm and enlightened stand on this important issue — equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation. None of us are free until all of us our free.

By: hallie

hallie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:03:25 +0000

Interesting take on the economic side of things. Haven’t heard anything about this; but I wonder what impact gay marriage would have on organized crime, oh! I mean the insurance industry?

As for the bible thumpers; sorry I’m not feeling too tolerent today. I’d like to remind them that their capricious christian god demanded the human sacrifice of his own human child. If people want to believe in the Bible, chapter and verse, let them but keep it in the church and out of my government.