But if you think about it, gays have not been out of the closet for so very long. The country needed 200+ years to get to the point where it could elect a mixed race person. I like to think it will take a fraction of that time for people to become that comfortable with gay people. It's really only been since the 70's that gay people even HAD a movement to join, and even in the 70's most gay people hid in their closets- and for very good reason.
So considering how short the time has been, I'm hopeful. The vote was very close- and next time, perhaps the correct decision will be made, and people will allow their neighbors to live, and love, and marry as they wish to- and not use the state to dictate who people marry. Because really, in the end, America usually ends up being fair- and the fair thing to do is NOT to inflict one religious view on everyone, it is to allow everyone to find their own way. It is especially weird to us, who are not religious, to imagine some invisible unprovable and apparently rather illogical force dictating what is right or wrong, and having that wind up in our laws, but I have to believe that with the passage of time even if religion doesn't stop trying to inflict itself upon us via the state, at least a good solid majority will say "No" to the attempts. |
