The big gay shrug By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Sorry, enemies of gay marriage. Prop 8 or no, you've already lost


Here's a fun thing to do to calm your frazzled, saddened nerves in the wake of the CA Supreme Court's very unfortunate, but also merely annoying and karmically fleeting Proposition 8 decision:

Head on down to your local high school -- hell, make it a junior high or even an elementary -- and take yourself an informal survey. Ask the various wary, bepimpled youth of Generation Tweet what they think about those scary gay people getting married.

Ask them, in your most panicky, alarmist, Mormonified voice: Aren't they horrified at the very idea? Aren't they shocked at the very thought of two people in love having their union officially recognized and validated by the state?

Don't they know the musty ol' Bible mutters some barely coherent, mistranslated silliness about it in a single word or two written 1,500 years ago in a long dead language by acidic church elders with powermad political agendas and violently repressed libidos who nevertheless wish to instruct us all how to live and love and screw? ...

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[teenagebambam]

1. So true

I'm a 40-year old gay man who teaches college. I am, very often, SHOCKED by the indifference these children have for my own and others' homosexuality. It would have been unthinkable in my day. It's absolutely no big deal to them - even the ones coming from Evangelical homes (and there's a lot of them, I'm teaching in the South).

[madokie]

3. I grew up with a gay person,

very dear person. We both knew that he was different in some ways back when we were just kids but neither of us paid much attention to it. I know from that that gays are born gay and if they are born gay then who the hell can pass judgement on them. I have a fundy neighbor who I like otherwise that thinks the gay can be fixed. I haven't gotten the chance to ask him yet but plan too ask him when it was, at what age, etc that he decided he was going to be straight.

[Horse with no Name]

2. LUCKILY our children and their children aren't so fucking uptight

whether the issue is Gay or Straight or Bi, or bi-racial or interracial, or oral sex...oh hell, really anything.

And that is a good thing.