Not a meme

[ffutures]

There's a meme going round at the moment which tries to use guilt to pressure everyone into posting a message supporting gay marriage and gay rights.

For the record: I believe that Governments shouldn't be involved in religious issues at any level, and that the civil aspects of marriage should not be gender-specific.

I am NOT asking anyone else to post a message along these lines, nor am I trying to guilt anyone out in any way, shape, or form. If anything, the original version of this meme would prejudice me against gay marriage, and I hope that whoever came up with the idea realises that trying to play the guilt card can have more than one result.

I'm not asking for comments on this - I think that there's quite enough acrimony about this one already.

Comments

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Can you point me to a sample of the meme?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Take a look at my friends page - you'll soon find one.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Huh. honorh is right.

[honorh.livejournal.com]

A hearty helping of WORD. I hate memes like that--"If you believe in A Certain Issue, post this in your LJ, and if you don't, it implies you're just a poopyhead bigot!" I never participate in those, no matter how strongly I feel on the subject. It strikes me as the LJ equivalent of those guilt-inducing "forward to 22,359 friends or you suck" chain emails.

[adrian-middle.livejournal.com]

There's a difference between a meme and spam.

I declined to participate for similar reasons to Marcus, but mainly because it starts with "We think" but fails to identify who the we actually is. Context is often lost whe you don't know the origin of the original post.