I woke up this morning with a pounding headache. Hmm, I’m not sure, but I think it must be from being a part of the exhilirating thrillride that was our national orgy of gay-discrimination yesterday. Man, we really stuck it to those homos! Hah, let’s see you try to have equal rights in Arkansas, Kentucky, North Dakota, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, or Utah!
It really is amazing the number of people who gave “Moral Issues” as their top reason for choosing a president. It was, in fact, the largest draw, ahead of even the war on terrorism. Now, seeing how the president is not in fact the moral leader of the nation, what does this mean? It means that Americans want their president to legislate morality. Which in turns shows that we want our president to legislate Christian morality. Only Christians, Jews and Muslims think that being homosexual is bad. The rest of us, and many of those folks, think that being homosexual is well, being homosexual. But, since the great majority of Americans are Christian, and right now they are the loudest voice in the country, we have them to thank for our shiny new gay-discrimination amendments.
Thankfully a few states were wise enough to write ballot proposals that solely looked to clearly define marriage (Georgia, Mississippi, Montana, Oregon). But, there were four of those and seven of the other thing. Hey, isn’t it illegal to be gay in Egypt? Maybe Egypt can be our sister-country, united in the fight against locker-room uncertainty! Seriously, banning gay civil unions is backwards and homophobic. But hey, for now it sure is fun in a facist kind of way.
Update: Now that my bitter sarcastic anger has faded a little bit, I do want to seriously state that no matter what the issue at hand, when rights are taken away everyone loses. No matter what side of the abortion debate you’re on, for instance, people are trying to defend rights- be it of the unborn child or of the mother. Defenders of the role of religion in government are fighting for their right to practice their core beliefs within their legislative and executive duties. But opponents of civil unions are NOT defending rights, they are taking rights away. There is no disagreement about this. Nobody’s marriage rights are threatened by two gay people legally pooling their economic resources. No one’s vows will be broken if someone’s gay partner dies unexpectedly and has their assets pass on to their legally recognized partner. When everyone else awakens to the reality that we’ve taken a step backward in this country, things will improve…but how long that will take is anyone’s guess.
Update: A Christian friend whom I respect deeply has told me that my angry rant was hateful toward Christians. For this I am very sorry. I won’t delete the original comments because I don’t believe in Orwellian tactics like that. Rather, I’ll say that Christians are neither hateful nor willfully oppressive as a whole. Most, if not the vast majority, of Christians and Jews and Muslims want to see everyone saved. So, as good people all, they are trying to help Society rather than to reflexively defend bigotry as I suggested. I do, however, think that Christians have it wrong here, no matter how clearly the Bible states it.
