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Time flies when you’re having fun. Time also has a way of changing people for the better. And it’s time we all admit that we have matured since Biblical days. We no longer think it’s right to give our virgin daughters to our houseguests to protect them from mobs of angry men. We’ve learned keeping slaves isn’t a very good idea. No one is parting seas anymore.

These developments don’t make modern men evil heathens. On the contrary, our willingness to progress is evidence of our desire to be better people and support a growing, diverse and more efficient society.

It’s clear that the Bible is not and should not be the sole standard by which a man’s morality is measured and his liberty granted in America, yet we continue to entertain arguments that it should be. Why? Because when Jesus returns, he’s going to be pissed that we’re all not perfect…and Christian…and straight.

Is reading that as freaky as it felt to write it? I wonder.

It sure is obvious that gay people aren’t the only wrenches in the Christian machine, but we’re the only ones who are repeatedly and publicly attacked. It’s also obvious that there aren’t a whole lot of folks running to defend us.

Here in the United States, especially lately, we struggle greatly with the obvious, and it’s hardly flattering. People wrestle with faith and morality all over the world of course, but the U.S. fundamentalists’ obsession with homosexuality is disproportionate to other nations and seen by those nations as comical and obviously political, not pious.

There’s so much good that a rich Christian organization could be doing in America and in all corners of the world today, yet it’s evil homosexuals that fundamentalists have their eyes on. Why are they not making miserable Christians happy instead of spending time and money to keep them miserable and scared? Why are they focusing on becoming more powerful men and not better men?

Something stinks, and it’s the stench of injustice. And that sound? It’s the thunder of abandonment.

We’re not the only ones who are questioning this obsession or who are tired of being slandered by power-hungry bullies with entitlement issues and bulging purses, but we’re the only ones left at the front.

We could run from the bullies like everyone else or we can demand proof of our wretchedness.

If instead of contributions and threats fundamentalists were asked by our senators and congressmen to produce all of the evil that they insist homosexuals ooze on a daily basis, we’d all die of boredom waiting for the results. So, why are we so reluctant to hold our accusers to a standard of any court in the country? Let’s see their proof.

Where the hell are all of the horrible gay people that are threatening the values of our families and neighbors? As I’ve said, I’m sure there are some bad queers. But I suspect they’ll be hard to find in a sea of despicable straight people.

I’d like very much to meet the couples whose marriages gay men have single-handedly destroyed or de-“sanctified.” Maybe when they’re done visiting strip clubs and brothels, beating the shit out of each other, drowning their children and appearing on Girls Gone Wild, they’ll find time to write to me and tell me how fabulous they are.

In the meantime, I’d like to read about the lesbians who have caused so much death and destruction in the world that we deserve to be labeled “abominations.” Show me the headlines that say the world is worse with all of us in it.

Someone please prove to me, the woman who wrote to me and every other gay person on the planet that we are vile. Put up or for the sake of all who are interested in acknowledging the different shapes faith takes within our society and the benefits that diversity offers, shut up.