Hearing the court overturn Prop 8 in California, calling it unconstitutional, was a breathe of fresh air. It's certainly one of many court battles that will take place, but it's a step in the right direction.
After a number of other public incidents, including Ellen's battle with stupidity and some very good points made by Howard Stern of all people, it occurs to me that there is a very loud minority of people making noise that are completely out of their minds, and would be literally banished into the most chastised underground of our culture if we were talking about race or some other group of people.
The politicians in particular have blown my mind. How can Santorum stand up in front of people and suggest that gay people should stop being gay, in 2012? Are you fucking kidding me? What's so bizarre about this is that with the progress we have made culturally, I doubt there are many people who aren't related to or have a friend who is gay, and you know it. It's like suggesting you don't know any black people or Jews. Given that fact, how can you be so blatantly stupid? How does someone like that even get to run for president?
And it's not like the people on the other side of the aisle are any better. Obama still can't grow some nuts and say, "Yeah, gay marriage is fine, we should allow that." He campaigned on ditching Don't Ask Don't Tell, but managed to drag his feet for several years before getting it done.
So what motivates people to even give a shit about this issue in the first place? If it's a religious issue, that's fine, but since there is no official religion in this country, you don't get to use that as an excuse. The other set of excuses, about "defending" marriage or whatever, is even more bullshit. You want to defend marriage? Stop letting half of all straight people get married in the first place, since it results in divorce. My first marriage didn't fail because of gay people, and it's not going to have any impact on my second marriage.
I loved the kid who stood up in front of the Iowa legislature, raised by lesbians, and told them in the most eloquent and non-confrontational way that the gender of his parents had nothing to do with who he was. I admire people like that, because I get too angry at stupid people.
It sucks that we even spend time talking about stuff like this. On the grand scale of problems we have, this isn't even on the scale.
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