Authentic Lives

I get it. I think I finally get it. ...because really, this much nonsensical garbage about private behavior and marriages that will not affect anyone else, makes no sense. Sin or not. All the lies. No. No preacher will ever be forced to marry someone against their own conscience. Nope. It's not about any of that. Do they really fear that gay marriage will make everyone gay? Nah. I hope they are not all that stupid.

Gays have always been here. Always. ...and in the past, we hid it. We either married people we could, at least, tolerate or maybe even love... Or we've been the spinster or the unmarried uncle...or whatever. We have lived fake lives for centuries.

...and now we say...not any more. This is my life and I want to be happy. It may and probably is, the only life I will have. It is mine. In Walden, Thoreau said something about people leading  lives of quiet desperation. That describes the gay life of the past, quite well. Can you imagine?

These religionists can and that is exactly what they are afraid of. If gays no longer live a life not their own and if gays are going to be happy, married and guilt be damned.... Oh no. Straight people might want to, too. That's it. I get it. 

All those women married to men who smack them around or demean them, or just do nothing for them, thinking they have made a noble sacrifice...for the kids. ...and all those men, married to the the women they don't want, working jobs they really hate, keeping hours that make them weep, thinking they have made the noble sacrifice....for the kids. They might all wake up and realize they are just teaching their kids a miserable lie and that people should really really be...with who they want to be with. 

People should all lead fulfilled and happy lives. Ahh... It all makes sense now. Gays start living REAL authentic lives....and straight people might want to, too. Dang.