I read that gay marriage opponents were victorious in two states, Nebraska and Tennessee. In Nebraska, 70% of the voters voted for a constitutional ammendment banning gay marriage.
It doesn't surprise me, but I wonder what opponents might say if I asked them, just for a moment to consider what they might feel like if they were gay. Basically, marriage is deemed a sacred insitution and, in some cases, considered "naturally" between a man and a woman.
I'm sure many of them would say, it's against the good book for a man to be with a man. (Of course days later, they sit in church listening to a sermon delivered by someone who is a member of a group (priests, in the catholic case) whose superiors are spending MILLIONS defending lawsuits (probably trying to either clear their names or at a minimum minimize the financial cost) brought against their homosexually pedophiic pals.)
It just seems to me that we are content to designate other human beings as, essentially, unnatural. Let's put aside the fact that the opponents make myopic financial choices (like denying parnter's ability to get health insurance...GREAT idea, let's put more folks at risk of NOT having health insurance or paying exorbitant amounts for it...that will improve our health care industry...).
I would love to ask them how they would feel walking down the street if they were gay. Even if they can't go there, I would love to ask them how they would feel walking down the street if they were a parent and they were walking with their homosexual son or daughter.
Our present and future continues to be a derivative of our past. Lately, I think, we've been, as a nation, collectively living each day feeling like we've lost our keys, figuratively.
We know there's something missing and we just can't put our finger on it. It's.....it's....AH, I remember, it's a Jim Crow type legal system! Well, we can't put those laws back on the books for black folks (of course, that never stopped us and still doesn't stop us from being racist...)
Thank goodness we can count on the gays! Welcome to the world of Jim & Jim, or Hide the Rainbow or don't ask, you're gay, etc. legal system.
I have a nightmare. I have a nightmare that one day gay humans and straight humans will drink water from different fountains.
I have a nightmare that the sons and daughters of gays and lesbians will be beaten and teased by the sons and daughters of the sons and daughter of straights.
I have a nightmare that our system of church and state will finally merge "officially" rather than continue as a farce.
I have a nightmare that all straight human beings will join hands and sing together as we send boats full of the remaining living gay folks off to Mykonos in Greece as we have in basketball arenas and baseball stadiums around the nation: "Na, na, na, na! Na, na, na, na! Hey, Hey, Hey! Gay's gone!!!".
If, for a moment, we want to be religious, I wonder, what would Jesus do?
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