Twisted logic

The outright stupidity on public display in America concerning the issue of same-sex marriage is so mind-boggling, so repulsive, that it leaves me at a sputtering loss for things to say. In that light, I urge you to read this piece by Adam Hanft at Friday's HuffPo, decrying "the twisted logic of gay-marriage opponents," and specifically lambasting the cowardly decision by New York's State Court of Appeals to "support the limitation on marriage that the legislature has enacted." Mr. Hanft writes:

The gay marriage debate is one of those freaky American moments where a cauldron of national fears and anxieties gets projected onto an issue, elevating it to a great symbolic level where it doesn't belong. What's really going on is that opponents of gay marriage see the struggle as the last defense against the radicalization of America. They live in fear that the virus of homosexuality will infect their own families. They're tortured by the prospect that their own children or their grandchildren will turn out queer, and the best way to deal with that is to demonize the enemy, and through that separate yourself from it.

Over our history, our basic "live and let live" instincts have occasionally been distorted by zealots. Zealots and the fear of zealots can influence legislators - and have done so at ugly times - which is why the New York Court of Appeals Decision is so dangerous.

I'm tired. Tired of being ashamed to call myself "American." Tired of a Conservative "agenda" that seems devoted to moving our society backwards in time. Tired of a nation whose "leaders" are dedicated to prejudice and fear.

Tired to the bone. And so should we all be.