THE DEFEAT OF GAY MARRIAGE IN NEW YORK STATE

It wasn’t too long ago that I was woken up abruptly from a dream about a better world when I heard the morning news telling me and everyone else who was listening that the New York State Senate voted against gay marriage 38 to 24 which promptly brought me back to the reality that a better world doesn’t exist for those who have a different sexual preference and the unavoidable conclusion was that no one is free when others are oppressed.

Thirty members of the party of no that lays claim to “less government” but prefers to legislate morality cast their objection without any reason expressed. They were joined by a handful of Democrats suffering from the same terminal righteousness reached across the aisle to deny someone the right to marriage claiming the sanctity of an social institution with a fifty percent rate of success and a fifty percent of failure depending on one’s view of the glass being half full or half empty.

Seems like the anti-gay movement influenced by the same monotheistic religions that were spawned in the deserts of the Middle East or the bastard ideological paternalistic offspring preached by Martin Luther or the fables of the Book of Mormon somehow crosses the line of the First Amendment to the constitution of my country which begins with the words “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion….”

That same Constitution contains a 14th Amendment that claims in section 1 “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

It seems quite clear that “all persons” in this country are entitled to both the due process of law and the equal protection of those laws against any state which tries to enforce a law that abridges the privileges of any citizen. Yet it is equally clear that our freedoms exist only on paper.

Thanks to the involvement of American Christian evangelicals the African nation of Uganda legislation is pending which calls for the death penalty if one has a sexual preference which differs from the mindset of irresponsible breeders. In this country self absorbed with it’s claim to a more civilized people we don’t execute someone for their sexual preference we just deny them the liberty to pursue a happiness that monotheistic religious bigots oppose because they have an imaginary friend on their side.

When state governments are denying the equal rights of its citizens are they not in fact doing so in the name of “established religions” and thereby giving organized superstition the right to determine who shall and who shall not marry and rendering the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution meaningless?

Since organized religion wants to impose it’s morality on the public perhaps it’s time for government to start taxing them for the privilege of trying to affect public policy and holding them criminally negligent for protecting the serial pedophiles in their midst. Isn’t it time to end tax free bigotry when forming public policy?

Finally the lunatic fringe which is now the Republican Party recently began a campaign claiming it’s time to address the loss of jobs in this country. Do they have any idea about the jobs that will be created in the hotel industry, catering, flowers, etc when we finally follow the Constitution by accepting gay marriage not to mention the legal community that will be there to dissolve the unions which suffer the same irreparable differences that now afflicts half of the breeding community in the sanctity of their marriages.