Gay marriage in Iowa

It's about time. Now the rest of the country needs to follow. Yes, I know, people are all up in arms about making sure that everyone is getting equal treatment under the law. Not sure why, though. Oh, that's right - they are concerned that their marraiges are threatened because other people are allowed to marry the people they love. No, wait - it's that allowing consenting adults to legalize their relationship will ultimately lead to the courts recognizing marriages animals and minors. Never mind that the comparison is absolutely rediculous as niether animals or children are considered consenting adults.

Maybe it's because they don't like what these couples do in the privacy of their own homes. Well, you are entitled to not like it, you just aren't entitled to go into their home and stop them from doing it. Consenting adults and all that inconvenient stuff. I don't like that my upstairs neighbors get drunk and fight, doesn't mean that I get to tell them they aren't allowed to get married.

Oh, I got it, it's because they aren't living by the Bible! Oh no! Oh my! We cannot let them heathens have the same legal protections we have! Ok, let's do that. Let's tell the Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Hari Krishnas, Athiests, Agnostics, Mormons, Wiccans, Catholics, etc, that they don't have the right to get married because their beliefs violate some sacred tennant the someone else holds dear. As a matter of fact, let's amend the constitution to prevent all those marriages from happening.

Yes, the whole situation is pathetic. I had a lady buying a newspaper at my work yesterday state she was ashamed to live in Iowa because gay marriages are legal. Why? Why would you give people that much control over you. Especially people you apparently don't like very much? 

You don't have to like what they do. You don't have to accept them as friends. You can spend your evenings foaming at the mouth that some guy or gal you don't know is doing things you are obsessed with to some other guy or gal you don't know. Things they would be doing anyway. Things that aren't illegal between consenting adults. The only difference is they now have the right to pursue happiness in their own way, and if that pursuit leads them to marriage that's ok. Because they are people. They are neighbors and friends and sons and daughters and brothers and sisters and they deserve the same chance at happiness as everyone else has.