And you thought the Federal Marriage Amendment only wanted to call the shots on marriage. But wait, there’s more! If the law gets to define marriage as being between a man and a woman, then it would also get to decide who gets to be which.

“…the way this sort of legislation is going, against their will some men will legally become women, and vice versa. It’s already happening in Texas.”

WTF??

In an article in the online Bioethics Forum, medical humanist and writer Alice Dreger explains how the “one drop of blood” rule, which was used in efforts to outlaw interracial marriage, is the same principle that would help the Amendment outlaw gay marriage. Just as the law once ruled that ancestry decided who was black or white, it would now say ones chromosomes determine whether one is legally a man or a woman.

If this ever actually comes to pass, then all the intersexed and transgendered people out there: sucks to be you.

The reach of this Amendment goes beyond the issue of who you can marry. In fact, it would stretch its slimy, clutching claw deep into the heart of who you are.

In a rare moment of sanity, the Senate rejected the Federal Marriage Amendment this month. When I think of how close we could have come to rolling back the clock on national human rights, I need to breathe into a paper bag.

[tags]FMA, Bioethics, transgendered, human rights[/tags]