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There has been a lot of backlash now that Gay people are beginning to get the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all citizens of the United State.

Some of it has been clumsy, appealing to the fear of other people by claiming that having the same rights as other citizens somehow makes them “special” when granted to Gay people, and are an attack on religion.

It’s the old God vs Gays, us against others approach.

Then there are the ones more legal in appearance, making it illegal for court employees to “aid and abet” in the assault on heterosexual marriages by doing their jobs issuing marriage licenses and performing formerly legal courthouse weddings.

There have been wilder attacks on same sex weddings that claim not being able to discriminate against a same sex couple is an attack on religious freedom, that fewer heterosexuals will get married if Gay people can, and that same sex marriage will instigate up to 900,000 more abortions than the yearly average so far.

And, of course, there are the floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other acts of Gods’ wrath that will result because nothing else, things like, murder, war, slavery, human produced suffering, angers God more than two people of the same sex falling in love.

But I have also noticed another, perhaps more subtle reaction to same sex marriages that goes beyond this to simply insulting the very concept of two people of the same sex being in love.

Most heterosexuals who object to the existence of Gay people and Gay people falling in love are fixated on the act of sex, the imaginings of how we “do it”.

Just this week, the state of Oklahoma’s House and Senate passed a bill that would protect churches from being sued for refusing to perform same sex weddings. Churches already decide who can get married in their edifices, and their rules go far beyond whether or not it is a same sex couple.

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So passing this law states only one thing very clearly:

There are some who actually believe that same sex couples only want to get married so they can prowl around looking for a baker to sue or a church to attack.

They are not looking to marriage as a commitment and expression of love, but as an excuse to sue somebody.

That is beyond insulting even if it is so very subtle.

It is bad enough that those who claim a righteous mind and who seem obsessed with the act of sex and cannot see beyond it reduce Gay people to that one aspect, while not doing the same when it comes to Straight people who they allow to have emotions, feelings, and complexities, but to act in such a way as to reveal that they strongly hold that Gay people cannot love and are only pretending to so they can file law suits, is the most unkindest cut of all.

Yes, there have been a few who reacted to being turned away from certain businesses by filing lawsuits claiming they have been discriminated against, but these are as representative of the vast majority of same sex couples as those businesses that proclaim their willingness to discriminate on religious “principles”, and rush to websites like GoFundMe to raise money to help them deal with the backlash, and the conservative groups who support this money  making scheme.

Protecting churches from non-existent lawsuits is merely pretending there is  problem from which politicians must protect the religious for the crass purpose of firing up a base to guarantee votes.

What seems more needed are laws that would protect churches and their faithful from being used by politicians.

Unlike the lawsuits, this playing church people the fool is a real thing.

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