The Choas of Arrogant Politics

Well, this week the Iowa legislature removed all LGBTQ protections from the law. Unfortunate on one hand; understandable on the other. Looks like there is a big demonstration against it today. The MOMA photo is so appropriate because neither side in this debate acknowledged the other's right to exist. Non-gender conforming people have as much right to credit, apartments, and services as anyone. However, people are not going to stand for genetic males playing sports against women. This is a big sports state and people are almost uniformly against that. Likewise, there is a sizable portion of the population against gay "marriage". Most folks don't (like me) care either way, hard-line religious types refuse to accept it. They define term "marriage" exclusively as a genetic man and a genetic woman. For better or worse, they own it; it has been that way for 6, or 8 or 10 thousand years, despite gay. So if you want to give tax and legal protections to gay unions, which they should have a right to, you have to call it something else--unions, liaisons, pacts. No, they had to have the term "marriage." Well, now we have a backlash and there will be people who will take advantage of it. It makes me unbearably sad, but I totally understand it, and I can't believe that if the gay community hadn't been so pushy and righteous about their "rights," but given some credence to the basic reservations of legit voters out there, we wouldn't be here.