Silly, isn't it?

Gay marriage itself isn't important. Gay people are not dying in the streets, starving for lack of marriage. I think in six states now they can marry? There will be more to come, probably all states before the decade is out. It doesn't actually effect anyone's lives except the couples involved. It won't bring about the End Of Times and it won't even cause more hurricanes. Curious though that the same people who vehemently deny global warming, believe that their God sends hurricanes and floods to punish cities for their gay people. Very Old Testament, if you think about it waaaay too much.

Gay marriage and Chick-Fil-A are distractions. Most of politics is distraction. This stuff leading up to the election is the smoke and mirrors of our leaders doing their job. There are more than 300 million of us in this country and the reality of life is that we are not that smart and our leaders know this and count on this.

I am a smart guy. I'm pretty sure I'm brilliant. But, I fall for this shit all the fucking time! I think this stuff is important really only because others make it seem so important by being so dead-set against it.

There's actually a lot to be said for that. I've long been curious as to where and why people draw the lines that they do in life.

Years ago there was a problem in a bar we were at and we threw some guys out for being combative assholes. There was some fighting but the miscreants gave up pretty quick. Except for one guy. One little guy was banging on the back door, bloodying his fists to get back in...so he could be thrown out the front door like the rest of his cohorts... That's what he said. All he had to do was stagger fifty feet up the sidewalk and there his friends were. They could mount a counter-offensive, leave or whatever. They just couldn't come back in.

I've chuckled about the absurdity of that for a couple of decades now. There are a lot of people like that little guy, in life today, who think they are looking at the big picture of things when they are actually reacting to the moment. And reacting wrongly at that.

The republicans are trying to win, not only the presidency but, every congressional seat, mayoral and governorship that they can. They will pound on every back door it takes accomplish this. Their thing is to appeal to every one's issues no matter how trivial and to be contrary no matter how ridiculous. Thus, gay marriage and chicken sandwiches- two things no one ever thought to associate before. No one should seriously care that the owner of a fast food chain is obsessed with gay marriage. He has a right to his opinion. You could argue that he has the right to remain silent about it but, that's only if he gets arrested for it... You, me and everybody have a right to disagree or not even care what that chicken guy thinks. Previously I wrote that it was a bad business decision to alienate a sizable portion of his clientele. But, former Arkansas governor, Mike Huckster, made me look foolish by *organizing* a day to show support for Chick-Fil-A that resulted in record sales for the chain. People lined up for hours for sandwiches to show support for the cause. Boy, do I feel like a dumbass!

There's a blood shortage right now in America and- speaking of food- several million people (including children, who are people too, my friend) are going hungry each day but, fuck that! We are seeing fit to buy chicken sandwiches to thwart the homosexual agenda that includes fabulous weddings! Priorities, eh?

Deflection. Such *political issues* are the Coliseum of Rome without- so far- the bloodshed for entertainment of the crowd. It's a goddamn soap opera. It's a diversion from what they really want to accomplish, whatever that is...

The democrats want control over our lives just as the republicans do. It's just that the dems go about it in a better way and that they don't intentionally fuck people like the republicans do. When the GOP makes such a HUGE deal about gay marriage while simultaneously proffering the rights of individuals, they're not just sending out mixed messages. They are showing their hand. And, they are showing it to the very people they court as the enforcers of their agenda. I really don't think that many congressmen really- really- care about gay people marrying. They care more about money and power and about how to get more of each. I'll venture that the vast majority of Americans don't really- really- care about gay marriage either. They just think they should because, you know, it'll end the deficit and bring back the America we all knew and loved back in the fifties AND lower the price of gasoline.

Something wrong with that thought process? Of course there is. Very few people outside of yours truly will express it as such but, this is a major part of their thought process. Denying gay people marriage today sets the stage for denying someone else of something tomorrow. Misusing the founders or the Bible to rationalize it  today sets the precedent for doing the same tomorrow. You agreeing to this today, makes you complicit to tomorrow. It sets the stage for you to become the next victim. You just don't know it yet. Gandhi said: "I like your Christ, I just don't like your Christians".  Like Jesus evidently said, "That which you do to the least of my people, you do to me." They're both right.

And this is why we care about the silly things. They want us to so that we don't care about the important things today or tomorrow. Let's take care of the silly things though because if we don't, it will get real- real- serious tomorrow. By then it will be too late. Pay attention now, America. Gay people marrying now will not ruin the country but not letting them will, in time. Don't wait and see as it will happen. It will happen by seemingly popular opinion.