War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting?

I don't understand the uproar over gay marriage. I was married once, and I was terrible at it. Made a complete mess of the whole thing, I admit it. Yet somehow, because I have a vagina and like people with a penis, I am free to marry as often I like. I am free to make a mockery of the supposed "sanctity" of marriage because of my sexual preference. It doesn't make sense. What I'd like to know is why are some people so afraid of the idea of two men or two women getting married?

I've heard the religious based arguments, most of them very hypocrital. They tend to involve the aforementioned sanctity of marriage , reproduction and God's will. I find it funny since Jesus seems to have been a pretty liberal thinking kind of guy, what with all the charity work he seemed to have done with prostitutes, "lowlifes" and the like. I'm pretty sure if Jesus walked today, the diehard Fundies would hate him completely for his political views and his appearance.

Most of the arguments I hear can be quickly dismissed since it is easy to trace the comments straight back to hatred. The funniest argument is the assertion that somehow a gay marriage demeans and reduces the validity of a straight couple's marriage. I tend to think that the person saying that might want to re-examine their marriage if somebody else is able to ruin it so easily simply by being married themselves.

Have you ever wondered why these people spend so much time thinking about gay sex? Because that is what every gay issue seems to boil down to for them, sex acts. There must be an awful lot of sexually frustrated people out there.