Seriously, What's Your Problem?

  There has recently been a lot of wind issuing from the faces of politicians regarding the ever-controversial issue of marriage equality. This is one of those distraction issues that seems to come up whenever it is convenient to make voters think about anything but what a horrifying mess our world has become. Aside from the extremely homophobic response of some states' governments of amending their constitution to specifically ban gay marriage; very little actually gets done about the issue one way or the other. As far as D.C. goes, the discussion is pretty much exactly where it has been for years. Which is to say, it sits there and doesn't progress toward either side's preferred result.
  Everyone has heard the arguments against it. Everyone knows exactly who the real opponents are and what they think. I have no desire to rehash all the bullet points on the pro or con side of this topic in this article. Instead, I want to use this forum to pose a question to the far-right, fundamentalist evangelicals leading the charge against this. Simply put, what the hell is your problem?
  In all seriousness, what is their problem? Gay men and women getting married has absolutely no impact on their lives whatsoever, and yet they insist that it would somehow make their lives unimaginably awful. Their world would become a dystopian hell-scape ala' Mad Max. Heterosexual couples would become filthy pariahs, scavenging for scraps of food left uneaten by the tiny teacup chihuahuas their fabulous gay overlords feed right in front if them as a constant reminder that they are not worthy of such delicious fare.
  No, I think not. I really don't think this boils down to any concerns about this imagined "sanctity" of marriage being damaged at all. If marriage were so holy-rollin' sanctified, divorce and infidelity defiled all that so long ago there is no one alive who had a great great grandparent who could remember their great great grandparents telling folk stories about it. THAT long ago. Marriage hasn't been close to sanctified for generations, if it ever really was.
  The reality is this: fundamentalists don't want gay people getting married and being happy because they are terrified of what that says about their own failed marriages. If gay people are the wicked spawn of the devil's hatred of goodness or whatever, then how bad does it look if they can hold down a lifetime commitment to loving one another and being true to vows sworn to their spouse in front of God and the state?  How bad does that make them feel about the fact that their first marriage fell apart because hubby had a mid-life crisis and started banging waitresses? Or maybe the Missus found herself in bed with someone else because hubby was never home. They can't keep their marriage together, but some heathen faggots can? Not on OUR watch, by God! Then begins the letter writing to the congressman, and so on.
  In the end, if you're opposed to gay marriage, it says a lot more about what kind of person you are than it does about some nonsense sanctity of "traditional" marriage. It says you are petty and selfish. It says you think only you and people like you are deserving of happiness. It says, once again, that your personal religious superstitions are the standard by which everyone else should live their lives. Why don't you get a hobby that doesn't include ruining other people's lives, please? That would be a pretty Christian thing to do, I think. For what my opinions on that are worth.

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