I can't stand it anymore.
"I'm not a homophobe, anti-gay, or a bigot just because I'm very pro-traditional marriage!" pleads the wildly backpedalling Opportunistic Bigot in a full-on state of naked inglorious retreat. "What about my rights?!? What about my voice!?! I'm being marginalized all of a sudden, my beliefs are not just being criticized but openly denigrated, I'm being viciously assaulted! I'm being attacked, smeared really, as a bigot! A bigot. Me. It's so unfair!"
Um. Seriously?
Seriously?
Do you not remember who you motherfuckers are? Well, here's a reminder.
You went from standing in front of mobs chanting "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" to flacking whatever vile shit you thought would freak the most people out. "Gay marriage will not just undermine marriage, but the very fabric of society." "If gays are allowed to marry, it will open the doorway to seeking the right to marry animals and inanimate objects." Nothing was too low. Bestiality? Child Sex Slavery? Necrophilia? 'Well, who knows?"
You no good low-rent gaggle of hateful self-serving bigot-for-hire whiny ass titty babies.
Entire election cycles were gleefully covered in slick wall-to-wall homophobia and hatred.
Remember that shit? Good. Now go fuck yourselves. Here. Here's a ratty leather glove covered in rusty spikes. No. No. Here's two. You can all go bend over and collectively fist each other in a frenzy until all the pain equals all the hate and the stupid you have given us for ages in spades. You all made your bones stoking and exploitating hate. On repressing dissent and dissenters. Please. Cry me a fucking river. A angel's tear sea. It wouldn't even offset Prop 8.
The tab has come due, and it's come due waaaay before you thought it would.
Now, with rubbed-red eyes wildly darting around in raw desperation, when not rapidly widening in fearful recognition realized much too late, here comes the most sickening PR gambit of them all. 'I'm the real victim, here'. Not the people who were condemned to be second-class citizens. No. The haters. The bigots. "Now, I have to worry about being called a hater and being oppressed for my traditional values, principles, and beliefs!" Wow. Fuck you all.
Know what? Choke on it. A lot worse than your fee-fees have been hurt thanks to you.
It's strangely, gloriously, magnificently bittersweet to hear the dire and fitful laments hang so bitterly, and so fearfully, in the air. But I'll take it. It's a start. To see the beady little eyes wildly darting around so desperately for any path to escape being held accountable and held to task in any manner or fashion at all. For who they are, for what they have done, and for what they would still do had not the familiar landscape just shifted beneath their feet.
"The gay lobby is a ruthless and merciless political machine, the entire lamestream media is totally in their back pocket, it's not fair!" Victims? You people?!?? In what universe? You are going on and on and on about 'the Gay Lobby' being relentless in going at you? The fat and well-funded wingnut welfarian Culture Warriors of the far Religious Right and the Billionaire conservative megadonors that gave us Citizen's United? You are bigots. You are. Own it.
I might entertain the faintest notion of feeling sorry for your current plight, if you all hadn't been so utterly and thoroughly vile when you were the only game in town. When you rubbed people's faces in every little petty move you made. So wretched after each carefully planned and engineered wedge-issue election day victory fueled by hate, fear, and malignant resentment. Like the worst junior high school bullies on Earth.
But now?
Now that it's clear that you've lost the war and you are looking like you are going to own who you are and what you have done? Now? Now, you want to raise the flag of parlay to earn some semblence of quarter? Some Sympathy? Mercy? You want your victims to be the bigger people now that you have lost and there is no going back. You want a pass that allows you to escape living down your track record?
Now you want... what? A break? You want the very thing, the very motherfucking thing, that you never ever gave anyone fighting for their rights against all odds for a single second of your sick crusade of bigotry and hatred? You want everyone to let the world forget your rancid bigotry, your slick and sick opportunism and exploitation, because, in your minds, it would be the decent thing to do? Please.
You've earned no such thing. Now. Eat all your shit and feel some real fucking shame.
Then, we'll talk about a long and bracing period of naked truth and raw reconciliation.
The reason that all you various professional homophobic pieces of garbage all woke up on the wrong side of history one day is that you earned that harrowingly bleak little sunrise all on your own. If you feel like people are being mean to you, well, get the fuck over it. Because gay people, and the people who love and suppport them, have all had to stomach you, your Maggie Gallaghers, and the rest of your ilk. Own it. You earned everything you are getting back.
And we have long memories. We don't forget how you play the game. How you roll.
Calling you 'Bigots' to your collective faces is just a really, really good fucking start.
You've pulled this shit before. Right after the Civil Rights Act passed into law and a new day dawned. You need to be enabled to get away with what you do. Next stop? If we let you? Why. The Great Conservative Pinkwash. On par with the Great Whitewash of American Conservatism with the dawn of the post-Civil Rights Act era. First, you play the victim, to shut people up, and then, you re-write your own history.
Why, everybody decent and kind always supported gay rights and marriage equality. Only generic unnamed anonymous bigots were the bad guys back then in the bad old days. Gosh, some of the biggest heroes of the entire gay rights and marriage equality movements were Movement Conservatives and high profile Republicans! In many ways, if you think about it, marriage equality is Conservatism itself!
Never again. No way. No great re-writing of history after this change in the tide.
There is no fucking way you are going to get out of owning the shit on your plate.
Don't even try to play the victim. Let alone don't you even fucking dare to try and cast yourself as the oppressed minority in need of defense and protection from oppression. Unfairly kept down for the sin of expressing now unpopular views. To buy time, and silence, to help muddy up the waters and re-write your past. It's a sickening display of simpering cowardice wedded to the most callow strain of deeply brackish cynicism. No. You don't get to do that.
We see you for who, and for what, you are, and now you can own every bit of it and choke on it like a mouthful of volcanic ash. Because you have to own it, all of it, to move past it. Simple.
If not, grab your lil' blue binky and shove that lil' thumb of yours right in your mouth and suck.