I'm a point now where I look at opposition to this in derision. The issue isn't really that complicated. Those who say it is are usually seeking refuge in shrouds of ambiguity in an attempt to cloud out what is usually at its heart: bigotry. Subtle, ignorant, self-righteous bigotry.
I've taken the journey with this topic. I've seen the push and pull, the for and against. More importantly though i think I've seen what it means for its victims. There's an ugly cruelty to denying one person's love for another, to label genuine desire to care and love and commit as anything less than what it is. Unfortunately its those who claim to abhor such behavior are the ones who most perpetrate it. Namely, the Church.
It is a consequence of ignorance. They do not understand them, so they fear them. If they understood them, they could not continue to perceive their actions as loving. If they are not loving than they are hypocrites.
I am at a point now where I realize it is not enough to sit idle about this. That there are too many good and kind people I know who are on the wrong side of this issue because they do not understand it, and will happily meander there until something jolts them into thought. Into empathy. Into doing the right thing.
I have to be the change that I want to see.
I will be.
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