Folks,

Quick rant:

I'm geniunely puzzled why everyone is so up in arms about this gay marriage thing. Jesus Christ, relax already. Is Mitt Romney afraid that once a gay couple is married they will become terrifying monsters who will stop at nothing to eat his brains?

What is especially galling is that all the politicians are saying "we don't think gay people are bad people, we just want to preserve the sanctity of marriage". I wish one of them would stand up and say what he really means, something like "I believe gay people are weird. I'm glad I don't know any of them personally and I hate them because I'm afraid of the whole concept. Also, in my darkest moments I worry that I might be a little gay myself. Anyway, they can have civil unions but no marriage - separate but equal you see."

Well people, separate but equal didn't work the first time and it isn't going to work now. People deserve basic human rights. If no politician has a problem with a sanctified married straight coupling putting on S&M gear and chaining each other up in a dungeon then perhaps they should get over themselves about two guys making out and grant them their dignity as American citizens. What's normal is in the eye of the beholder and people's personal proclivities about love and sex really don't need to be policed by the authorities.

Furthermore, five or six American GI's have died in the past two weeks in Iraq. I say five or six because I really don't know. The story of these unnecessary deaths doesn't even make the front page anymore. It's buried on page ten under nine pages of stories about the desperate attempts of politicos to do things like amend our constitution to codify discrimination.

Arg/Dag.