November 9, 2009

I don't drink (except for on the very rare occasion). I don't smoke. I don't do any illicit drugs. I have only had sex with one person, to whom I have been faithfully married for over a decade. I have three children whom I support both financially and emotionally. I attend church three days a week and regularly study scripture and pray. But I'm evil.

How am I evil? I mean, besides that whole pesky original sin way.

I am evil because I have the audacity to accept that my heterosexuality is merely a happenstance of birth. I am evil because I do not believe that heterosexuals possess a monopoly on love and its legitimate expression. I am evil because I do not believe that my government should "define" my marriage as the only legitimate way to be married.

By the way, "conservatives" who do believe that should reexamine your conservative cred. Even I, the liberal who believes that the public option for health care should be a public mandate (because some things, like our health, should not be ruled by a profit margin), thinks that form of government intrusion is way too far.

I'm not saying your pastor has to perform the ceremony. I'm not saying that you have to attend. I'm not saying your children have to be taught that it's OK to be gay and they should give it a shot some time to see if they like it. I'm just saying that it is fundamentally unjust for the government to prohibit same sex marriage while endorsing heterosexual marriage and providing all of the benefits that my spouse and I enjoy.

And that makes me evil. Pray for me. Maybe I'll come around.

-Tom