it is as if

As if it was a fluke, a fake, the 200 marriages in Michigan were renounced and ruined by a Governor who believes the institution of marriage is confined to one man one woman and defined by a Bible written by all men. As if the same-sex couples were playing a game of pretend, dress up, what if, the Governor of Michigan decided to delete and destroy the lives and loves of those who said I do only to have that replaced with no you don’t. It is as if America prefers a cast system a  segregation of and for rights. You fit into my my mold and you can enjoy freedom, I find you something of an other kind and you do not deserve the privileges and promise I have handed to me.

Limbaugh can marry four times, Gingrich can walk down the aisle three times, Stanford can hike on the Appalachian leaving his wife behind as he attempts adultery, Vitter can hire a hooker and Charles Manson can order the murders of half a dozen people, and marry a 25 year old woman,  but the Governor of Michigan and all of his pathetic hypocritical homophobic buddies won’t utter a word of dismay or disgust; after all God and George Washington know that opposite sex marriage can be all fucked up but as long as it is one man and one woman it is nobodies business.

It is no longer time sit back and let the insecure, self loathing, kiss the ass of the lowest common denominators politicians, haters of anything homosexual run roughshod on the lives of same-sex couples who want the to wed. It is time to insist that this nation, not just state by state, but the entire nation understand that love is love and for those who wish to consummate that emotion by legalizing it, then let it happen. It is time to stop pretending that same-sex couples are all too powerful as to end the relationships of opposite sex couples. It is time to call out the homophobes who linger in hate and fear. 200 couples in the state of Michigan were treated like non-citizens, like a blight on the land in need of eradication. It is as if the 200 couples in Michigan never ever existed.