Homocon

The Gay Left's thoughtless and obsessive push for what they have somehow concluded is a "right to wed" demeans the social and political values of the majority of this country's citizens, which has done more to singlehandedly inspire a backlash against the idea of homosexual unions than any supposed religious bigotry or alleged fundie-hatred.

A relaxation of social mores that would naturally have occurred over the course of the next several decades, and which was already, albeit slowly, occurring has unfortunately been undercut and, doubtless, set back years by a fringe group of gay protest-junkies who have to have everything (stamping foot on the ground) NOW! NOW! NOW!

I guess they have to have some consolation for Bush's election (Go, Georgie!).

There is the opinion that accepting and encouraging a more gradual cultural shift regarding same-sex marriage would have been akin to Rosa Parks shuffling off to the back of the bus yet one more time, except that that particular analogy is so off-target as to be laughable (if not insulting to the history of the black civil rights movement). Gay men and women are not denied housing, education, employment opportunities or a seat at the front of the bus. We can vote, use restrooms without peril (unless you're George Michael, or unless George Michael is in the restroom with you), order lunch at our favorite restaurants, obtain independent health coverage and quality health care, and despite our fractional numbers, we're more than adequately represented in the arts, in news media reports, in sports and in politics.

The argument that our "rights" are being trampled because we're not presently afforded state sanctioned marriage with all its legal accouterment is a specious argument. Homosexual men and women, throughout all of history, have rarely, if at all, held a "right" to get married to the same gender, and it would be difficult to claim that a right is being trampled when such as right has never before been granted. Social and governmental support for same-sex marriage represents, not simply a cultural shift, but rather a break with the traditions of most of civilized history. There are marginal examples of cultures which have tolerated and accepted the cultural codification of same-sex relationships, but these are few and far between, and this attitude has been rarely more than a footnote throughout history.

This is not, by any means, an argument for the indefinite continuation of what may someday be considered a confusing chapter in human wants and psychological desires, but rather an argument for less "I'm a victim!" attitude and more recognition of how much progress has already been made.

Listening to the Gay Left shriek about how oppressed they are, and how society treats them like "second-class citizens", one might almost be forgiven for believing that being gay in the United States is a hardship, yet the opposite is true. Homosexuality has been decriminalized, delisted as a psychological illness and fully embraced as a comic device in Hollywood movies . . .

*ahem*

I'm fully aware that not everyone may like it that I've chosen to be gay, but I'm also not searching for the government's approval in order to make up for whatever it was I didn't get from mommy or daddy. A Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage wasn't even a glimmer in my daddy's eye until San Francisco Mayor (natch) Gavin Newsome declared himself a spokesman for all human culture, took the law into his own hands and the entire nation got Rosie O'Donnell locked in a lesbian kiss across the 6 o'clock news.

Ew! That's an image I've been trying to rid myself of ever since.