51st state

In the state of California you were able to say i do then you didn’t and then you did again, if you happened to be Gay or Lesbian. Your marriage was recognized by the government then it wasn’t then it was. In the state of California you could have beat your spouse, cheated on your wife or husband, had extramarital affairs with someone of the opposite sex, even marry three four five times and no one complained with great consternation that the Institution of Marriage, the Foundation of Religion, the welfare of the children would implode, deflate or become poisonous if you were a heterosexual. 

In the state of Michigan you were not able to say I do, then you did and now you don’t, if you are Gay or Lesbian. Your marriage was characterized as an affront to the sanctity of family, an abomination of anything religious or pious, and nothing more but an uppity attention grabbing scheme to deplete the value of heterosexual marriages. You could be Newt Gingrich and be welcomed as a thrice married man, Marc Sanford with no qualms about your extramarital affairs or even David Vitter a regular man’s man with a penchant for prostitutes in Michigan and no question would be asked about your impact on the quality and purpose of marriage. But if your name is Adam and you want to marry Steve or your name is Eve and you want to marry Alicia you are a pariah and the wicked witch of the west ready to cause many households to crumble in fall apart in Michigan.

In the state of hypocrisy you can determine the values and morals of all those around you while ignoring the rigid and rigorous rituals for your self. You can participate in placing dogma and restrictions  on people supposedly not like you while keeping a blind eye and a deaf ear to the exact same indiscretions you bemoan and detest for people just like you and indeed yourself. You can recite every verse and chapter from an abridged Bible to deny equality while ignoring fact and purpose from a Constitution created for we the people. In the state of hypocrisy the louder you scream, the more indignant you become, the more reliant on fable and fiction for fact you find yourself, the more content you are in never looking in the mirror rather turning the reflection away from you the more attention you garner. It seems that in the Unites States in the year 2014 the state of hypocrisy has become the 51st state.