How dare you “Yes on 1” voters celebrate, revel in the denigration of other people’s love. How dare you use morality as justification for explicit bigotry, the promulgation of your idiotic ideology and antiquated notions of tradition and sanctity. How dare you use the rhetoric of traditional values to further subjugate fellow citizens, to relegate them to something lower than second class status. why is heterosexual love intrinsically more valuable, more worthy of protection than homosexual love? Not even God, yes God, serves as an adequate defense or terminus to this debate.

Look beyond your Bible-thumping narrow mindedness and examine your logic. If you look closely, you’ll see that there is no logic deft enough to deny gay marriage. The absence of logic is not to blame for what happened in Maine; the presence of fear is.

Tell me, moral ones, how there is any sanctity left in the institution of marriage in the wake of Elliot Spritzer, Marc Sanford, the 8 marriages of Elizabeth Taylor and the fake marriages of celebrities and people scamming the system for citizenship. What is so precious about an institution that accommodates and allows American heterosexuals to flagrantly mock and abuse it and yet, thanks to the tyranny of bigoted majorities, spits in the face of homosexual love ? Beyond love, legal equity is the real issue at hand and an issue easy to obfuscate in the discourse of morality and tradition.

How funny is it that a majority of the voters in above photo with “Yes on 1” signs are women? How ironic that a group that historically has been relegated to second class status and was denied the right to vote use their status to further the legal subjugation of another group. It’s almost too easy to call out the ironies of what transpired in Maine yesterday. It’s a shame that once one group secures ‘equality,’ they’re forced to deny others it in the name of self-preservation.

I’ll stop here and offer the following:

From this point on, I will no longer support the right of my heterosexual friends to get married while homosexuals continue to face the outright denial or public overturning of their marriages. I will not attend ANY weddings until EVERYONE who wants to get married in this country can. I refuse to continue to support the right of others to participate in an institution that is systematically denied to me and others like me. I refuse to continue the implication that heterosexual love is worth more. My apologies to my friends who may want me at their future weddings, but I trust that you know me well enough by now to understand my position on this issue. If not, then perhaps we shouldn’t be friends at all. I know that I may end up waiting a long time and that my position may seem particularly harsh, but my sincerest wish is to eat wedding cake, my own and that of my friends, before I die.

p.s. apologies for any errors in my write up; I was too angry to edit it. I’ll clean it up later.