Great post, as always, Amos. I don't now, nor have I ever understood how allowing folks the same civil rights I have is threatening to me. Nor do I understand how people who praise "God's plan" and "God's will" can't wrap their minds around the fact that "God" created all life, including homosexuals, so they are part of that plan and will as well. I don't "get" homosexual attraction because I'm not homosexual. But what I do get is friendship and decency, and I can tell you that I have any number of gay and lesbian friends who are as honest, decent, and authentic as any friends that I have. They are wonderful members of the community, honestly and devotedly committed to one another, have all the same problems and hopes that I do, and are simply trying to live a prosperous, happy and fulfilled life. One of the tenets from the Christian book that is probably the most important to me is "Love one another as I have loved you". I am not smart enough to figure out why The Greatest One would have made gay folks, and then condemned them for the way they were made. I guess they will all have to deal with that when they meet. But as for me, I will love my neighbor, enjoy their friendship and company, and fight just as hard for their civil rights as I would hope they would fight for mine.

I remember when a pretty well known musician friend married her longtime companion and I was trying to figure out what the best thing I could say to her was. I told her that I wished her all the happiness that I have with my wife.

All the best,

Mick