Sounds like you're having a rough day, Musket. My condolences.

I don't know that we disagree on gay marriage...I have no problem with it in a legal sense. My only problem with the present political climate is that the media and politicians and various commentators are giving the gay rights issue a disproportionate amount of attention, because they know it pushes various people's buttons...and because they are afraid not to.

It has reached the point where if a civic official does not bother to participate in a city's Gay Pride Day celebrations...as in the City of Toronto, for example...he or she is hounded by various advocates and people in the media and accused of being "homophobic".

That creates a climate of fear. That climate of fear results in a lot of false posturing....various politicians and media and other people faithfully attending a Gay Pride parade even though they have no real desire to be there and no actual interest in the subject at all...but just because they're deathly afraid not to be seen there.

And that, frankly, is pathetic. It is that climate of fear that I object to. It's gone way out of proportion, just as the climate of fear that gays themselves were oppressed by in previous social eras was way out of proportion. I don't agree with people being intimidated into pretending they are something they are not...whether they're gay or straight or whatever else they are.