What ever happened to gay marriage? People don’t really talk about it anymore. I fear the issue has just gone away. With all the excitement about a Bush-free world, everyone sort of forgot that we don’t really have equal rights for gays and lesbians yet. I am just as excited as everyone else that Bush will be out of office soon, believe me. Bush wasn’t a bad President. He was the WORST President. But just because he’s leaving doesn’t mean all our problems will be solved automatically.

I am just worried that the issue of gay marriage has been dropped as a political argument because the consensus from the last election is that so many people hate gays that there is no way to maneuver around that prejudice, so we might as well forget it. This is amazingly depressing and I am not sure what to do about it. I don’t want to forget about gay marriage because I think America can overcome its prejudices. We are a country that has made our history doing just that. I believe we are ready to abolish homophobic attitudes. They are outdated and frankly, totally beneath us. This is a great country. Why are we acting so immature about people wanting to build families? Who cares who makes a family anyway? Why is it even a problem? Why would anyone be against it? Why are people accepting that people are against it? Why is homophobia still OK, even among presidential candidates?

The only candidates who seem confident enough to talk about gay marriage are the ones who are adamantly against it, like Mike Huckabee. Oh my, I so do not heart Huckabee. He equates homosexuality with bestiality, which is interesting because he is so very closely tied to Chuck Norris, who does have a bit of a sensual beast in him. If you hate gays so much, why did you pick the celebrity who looks most like International Mr. Leather 1995 to endorse you?

Hating homosexuals is supposedly a Christian thing-which I don’t get either. I was raised in the church. My grandfather was a minister, and we had church seven days a week at my house. Of course, it sucked. Majorly. But the upside of it all was I did learn a lot about the Bible. I read the Bible-several times-and learned everything you would want to know about it. I even taught Sunday school, threatening all the kids who got out of line with eternal damnation. Because of my upbringing, I believe in God, and more importantly, I think I understand God. What God wants, what God is asking from all of us, is basically, “Don’t be an a–hole.” That’s it. And we are lucky because of Jesus, now it is “Try not to be an a–hole.” This of course, is the King James Version.

I wish for Huckabee, and for all those out there who oppose gay marriage, to just try, try, try not to be an a–hole. It is all Jesus really wants.