Isn't it eerie how the religious right or right wing moralists have grown so silent about same-sex marriage?
I'm sure they're out there. I wonder what they're thinking?
They say it's important to walk a mile in someone else's shoes if you really want to understand.
Here's an opportunity:
Imagine you're a good, honest born again, a religious fundamentalist. The thought of two people of the same sex being intimate with each other is something you won't allow yourself to think about. If you happen upon a t.v. program where you see two men or two women kiss, you turn off the television and don't turn it on for a week.
A same-sex couple buys the house the next door and moves in. You're appalled, but try to ignore it. At a neighborhood gathering, you can't help but overhear the same-sex couple discussing their interest in adopting a child. It makes you shudder; you almost drop your Fresca.
To relieve your mind of the trauma of this moral degradation, you concentrate on your pet project: abortion. You attend church meetings and gin up your love of family values and watch nothing but "Leave It To Beaver" re-runs on t.v. This makes you feel better.
Then, one day at work you hear two young women in the cubicle next to you talking about an accidental pregnancy. The young pregnant woman is asking where she can go to terminate the pregnancy. She can't go through with it. She's not ready. She doesn't feel capable of raising a child.
Your eyes widen. You stand up to speak to the two women and just then the same-sex couple who wants to adopt flashes through your mind.
Now what do you do?