This makes me want to cry. Or vomit. I can't decide.

The land of the free. (Unless you're gay!)

Forget for a moment about the civil right issues, although they are terribly relevant, and just think of it like this:

This is simply bullying, exclusion and school-yard meanness of the highest order. Everyone, everyone, has been subject to some kind of exclusion in their life, has been left out of an event or club. Everyone knows how much it hurts to be told "You don't belong. You can't play with us." I have felt it many times. But such slights as I have experienced cannot even begin to compare to the exclusion from a basic societal rite that the vast majority of the public participate in. I cannot imagine the sting of being told that you can't marry the one person in the world you want to recognize as your partner. To be told that your love is not as legitimate as others'. To be told that, although what you want to do harms no one, the community will not allow you do it. That the law will not afford to your partner the protections and privileges that it otherwise would, if your partner were not the same gender as you.

It really does make me want to weep, this injustice to thousands of kind, good people, this stratification of the human race. And to me, it has effectively destroyed any respect I gained for the American voting public as a result of Obama's being elected. Sure, great, they're all patting themselves on the back for making history and electing a black president, but they still hate queers.

I call bullshit.