The victory this election season came with a surprise. Every state that had same-sex marriage on the ballot won. Four states legalized gay marriage and one refused to change their Constitution to bar same-sex marriage, leaving it for the future. Is that a win for us queers in Gaza?
No. Here in California the religious right lied through their teeth to scare people into voting against marriage and then used their attorneys to keep it from us. It still lingers on the dock of the Supreme Court. It is an amazingly slow process that could take until next summer to hear their verdict. Meanwhile, Wally and I are here, in limbo, married but a minority within a minority. A group that got married when the opportunity came and just as quickly went.
I don't understand it either, don't understand why some people work so hard to deny our rights as other human beings and citizens. It makes no sense other than to punish people for being gay. I guess that Christianity still has power to control who gets certain rights as an American and who doesn't. And it's the Pope, the Mormons, and all the wacky Christian South that seem to control this ability to deny or allow whom they deem worthy of marriage.
Religion, the only thing people will accept without proof that there is a god to worship. A wacko assortment of ritual, ignorance and ancient text to keep humans controlled without bothering to prove anything but to wave a book at believers made of stories that are fabrications and obscure ways of life impossible to practice in today's world. And we are subject to the whims of wacko nut jobs that think they know what is best for others.
How in hell did that happen?
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