we shall overcome.

Neither can I.
May i just take a moment to declare, loud and proud, that this blog supports marriage equality, and so do i 
It frustrates me to no end that this is not an issue that has already been resolved. to all governments out there that still oppose marriage equality, there are so many actual issues you could be trying to resolve, rather than wasting time stubbornly clinging to and worse, trying to validate, ideals about marriage that are so outdated and irrelevant in this day and age that i can't even come up with one for which arguments are still legitimate. Please, just move on! on a more personal note, i happen to come from a household that is, sadly, not entirely in support of this issue. unfortunately, my parents do not share in my beliefs. sure, there are a lot of people out there who are like my parents in this view, but what i cannot fathom is how two people who grew up during the apartheid, who were themselves discriminated against for something they could not control, and who moved to this country because of their government's (and other peoples') ridiculous discriminatory views, can oppose marriage equality. do they not see that the same debates, demonstrations and battles that took place in order to bring equal rights to non-white south Africans, are present today? that the only difference between then and now is that the minority group is non-heterosexuals, rather than non-whites? how would my mother feel if she were forbidden by the government to marry the man she loved, simply because they were of a different race. true, my parents would have probably been allowed to marry during the apartheid as they are the same race, but what if my mother had been in love with a white man? for that matter, would she feel, should her own children ever find themselves in the same situation, forbidden to marry someone based on sexuality, the same sense of injustice that she once felt on behalf of coloured south africans? 

the words on the placards may have changed, but the cause is still the same. 
people are being discriminated against, this time because of their sexuality rather than the colour of their skin. it's still wrong. it still makes zero sense. 
i only wish my parents, like so many others out there, would wake up and see this. 

if i was less tired i would write a better conclusion for this, but i really do think that if the great Michael Jackson were still alive, he would be singing about this in similar fashion to 'it don't matter if you're black or white"
that's all.