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I work myself into a downright froth thinking about the gay marriage issue. Months ago, my aunt sent an email to a big group of family members with a link to a CNN poll, instructing us to vote yes on the gay marriage amendment. It said: "Please go to CNN's web site and vote YES ... a marriage should be defined as a union between a woman and a man. Then pass along to all your friends that feel the same way we do. Thanks!!" I wrote back and said in more polite terms that I would sooner eat shit and die than express favor towards that, and by the way, was she forgetting who her nephew is? My cousin, whose heart would no doubt be hurt by her sentiment and her willingness to spread it through the family, including to his own siblings and cousins, who love him and want nothing for him but happiness and decency and all the benefits of law that we less intelligent, less stylish, less beautiful, less overall outstanding and exceptional in every way non-gay relatives enjoy? What the fuck? Even if he were a blithering, no-talent assclown like the rest of us, he should still be afforded the same rights. I can't argue it clearly or succinctly like first Elizabeth and then Rob did. But I can feel it inside, and I can see pictures like these that take my breath away, because everyone has the right to do something that is so right. It's really, really difficult for me to understand how people who call themselves Christians fall back on religion to justify their stance on this. Excuse me, but religion is not a part of the law in the U.S. of A. I think it was Rob who said somewhere that you can't fucking use one religion to rule the land when lots and lots and lots and lots of the people don't believe in that religion or in any religion at all. That is just fucked up. And he's right. There is no argument against legalizing same sex marriage that doesn't have something to do with THE LORD and THE BIBLE. And neither of those two things has anything to do with anything that has anything to do with anything to do with the law. Church. State. SEPARATE. This is one fucked up nation, but let's not fuck up even more than we already have one of the good things about it, people, because that is one of the good ones. And I sit here and shrug my shoulders and massage my temples while wondering how anyone in this country can actually plan to be voting for George W. Bush. In short, WHY CAN'T PEOPLE JUST ACT RIGHT? I have sent my own version of this letter to my senators and representative, and if you feel the same way, so should you. And now for brighter news, here's the cutest baby in the world, who could very well grow up to be a super duper lesbian in which case I hope the law of the land will by then allow her to fucking marry the love of her life, wearing her favorite romper from her proud Nanny Lou. 
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