The current (I hesitate to call them "modern day") generation of fundies lives in a world of technology and communication that would seem like godly magic to their Abrahamic ancestors. They use this science to disperse their simplistic balderdash that's rooted in dessert-wandering myths and witch-doctoring and think nothing of the plain evidence and contradictions that shows them to be deeply deluded and ignorant. The last hundred years have passed them by and disproved the ancient runes and cabals they so desperately need to explain their conflicting childhood dreams of omnipotent, omniscient super heroes rescuing them from death and oblivion.
Personally I don't care what they do as consenting adults in the privacy of their religious establishments or even on the public street corner. However, no group has the legal power to impose religious dogma in the law books of any state or Federal code. There continues to be a principle of separation of church and state, equality and liberty for all, that is paramount to the continuation of this country as it was founded. African-Americans, Native Americans, and women have gained their civil equality in spite of the restrictions originally written in the Constitution and later remedied by Amendments.
So far, 30 states have amendments or laws forbidding same-gender marriage in addition to the alleged "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA). Two states have understood the rights of gays and lesbians to have civil marriage, Massachusetts and Connecticut, with a handful of states having various marriage-like rights available but not the real thing. Close, but no cigar!
Just as Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education ending educational segregation; just as Bowers v. Hardwick was overturned by Lawrence and Garner v. Texas removing sodomy laws from enforcement, just as Colorado's Amendment 2 was overturned with Romer v. Evans, we can look forward to our day in a courtroom as well as the court of public opinion.
Although Frederick Douglass was disappointed by the 1857 Dredd Scott decision that refused full citizenship to free blacks as well as slaves, he found a reason to look forward, saying, "My hopes were never brighter than now." Slavery was brought to forefront of the country and the unsavory ownership of people could no longer be ignored.
Though we gay citizens are not owned physically, our social and economic prospects are curtailed. And so, thanks to our enemies, our own equality prospects been brought to the forefront and our equality will be won.
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