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A Swinger's perspective on Bullying, Ignorance, and Political Correctness
by Richard Woods
My wife Jane and I were married by Elvis. When we made the plan to elope to Las Vegas, we called our friend Joe, who lived there with his boyfriend, Jerry. Trusting that he would find us the hippest, coolest chapel in town, we were gladdened to discover that before our plane even landed, Joe had indeed made all of our arrangements. So the four of us ventured over to the "Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel" so that Jane and I could proclaim our Love and commitment to one another while standing before the Almighty King of Rock & Roll, and perhaps more importantly… for tax purposes anyway… to become "legitimate" in the eyes of the Federal Government.
One of the best things about having a best man who is gay, is that he can double as the Maid of Honor. It cuts down on the overhead, and the whining about those awful bridesmaid dresses. But as I sit here writing about the best day of my life, and the friends who shared it with us, it is not without a glint of sadness.
We Americans have become experts at masking Bigotry with Morality. Nowhere is this more true than with how we continue to treat same sex couples. Despite piously acknowledging the barbarism and lack of human rights accorded people of varying cultures around the world by their theocratic governments ….
Americans continue to duplicitously deny a segment of our citizenry their civil rights based on their genetically pre-disposed sexual orientation. This petty bias is conveniently rationalized as the will of an invisible, all powerful creator of the universe with awful communications skills.
Bigots, by nature, rarely recognize their own insular ignorance, rather they'll seek mitigating circumstance to justify their self-righteous, indignation. While engaging a fundamentalist Christian recently, I encountered just such a boorish lack of intellect who, despite a dramatically under-developed frontal lobe still managed to assert various Christ-based legislative directives– among them– not allowing homosexuals to either marry, or adopt. Although the First Amendment clearly prohibits the making of any law "respecting an establishment of religion" — God seemed to be the only justification one needs to promote such legislation. In fact, there is no valid Constitutional argument for denying anyone their civil rights. Yet these laws endure.
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