Oh politics

              So unless you have been living under a rock you all are aware of the chick-fil-la debate going on.  For those of you who do live under a rock the quick synopsis is that when the owner of chick-fil-la was asked if he supported gay marriage he replied essentially that he did not.  To be honest my husband and I are quite fed up with the topic because it does no one any good.  For starters EVERYONE knows that Chick-fil-la is owned by a Christian owner (hence the reason they do not do business on Sunday) so I don’t know why this came as such a surprise to people.  Second the owner does not refuse service to homosexuals or bisexuals, he stated his personal opinion which was reflected onto Chick-fil-la.  All of this aside though it sparked an interesting conversation between me and my husband.  We began talking about rights and equality (where if you know me it turned to female equality) and how I do not desire men and women to be treated the same as we do function and think differently, but I do desire women and other minorities to be treated equally. 

              Josh then posed this question: what if you could have that equality but hundreds of people had to die.  What if one person could make that possible, but he was viewed as a villain?  I told Josh that what he was proposing sounded more like a Hitler scenario where one person comes in and manipulates people and scenarios to what is the imagined benefit of few people.  Obviously, I would not be ok with that, but if it were more like the revolutionary war where people stood up together to defend their rights then I felt the deaths would be an acceptable price for what could be gained.  Unfortunately, I don’t ever see this happening.  I fear that we as a people are too self absorbed to be able to see a bigger purpose past ourselves.  As individuals we are too caught up in our own needs and desires that we have become complacent.  We can’t seem to see past ourselves to view ourselves at a social or national level, otherwise there would already be some sort of reform in action over where the state of this country is at.  This is where Josh and I began to disagree.  He thinks that people have in general become complacent and therefore abstain from making an issue of anything because overall it what they want; they want people to decide for them so they don’t have to worry themselves with the task.  That is why they will bemoan their situation but fail to initiate any change.  I however, do not feel that this is what people want, but as a society we haven’t really had the need to be taught how to fight such injustices and because of America’s have what you can now mentality, many people don’t understand the time or the work that is needed to invoke change.  What do you think?  Do you think a revolutionary war is possible with the blasé attitude most American’s have?


Clarification: It was pointed out to me by several people that I had not clearly expressed what I meant with women equality.  I do think men and women should be treated equal, but I do not believe this means treating women the exact same way we treat men.  For example, women bear children, they are granted maternity leave.  Although I agree men should have maternity leave as well it is obvious that women need a longer period to heal/adjust to her body and child.  This shows where men and women are treated differently, but still equally.