Gay has gone from being "happy"
to being "the love that dare
not speaketh its name"
to "don't ask, don't tell"
to being
part of the modern fabric of social discourse.
Of course, there are some who are
not comfortable with this.
But guess what?
What goes on behind closed bedroom
doors of consenting adults "ain't no one's business but their own".
Period.
It's
not the government's business, nor religion's business nor the media's.
Privacy
is protected.
So (in the famous lyrics of a song I will write someday) "Let
It Be".
If someone elects to run around the bedroom in purple spandex squirting ketchup
on each other and call it love, it's not my business either.
(Frankly, purple
clashes with my decor.)
Some of us lead very uneventful yet fulfilling love lives.
Others
want a dash of bravado, a flavor of spice and a whoosh of sea breezes followed by
blaring trumpets.
For most of us, that tapers off about the third week after the
honeymoon.
Others elect to invigorate relationships by various means.
Let me
reiterate. It's not anyone's business.
From a public policy perspective, one might think the conservative wingnuts
would consider the LGBT community to be natural allies.
After all they're not
clamoring for maternity leave.
They're not "makin' more babies to get on
welfare".
No child support issues.
They pay extra taxes because they don't
have the dependants.
The list is endless.
This author has a daughter who stridently and vociferously defends the rights
of this community.
She does not understand why others are not equally vocal.
She
does not undersand that there is an older generation that had different values.
Times
have changed and those values are changing as well.
This does not forestall the
need for diplomacy and gentle persuasion.
As for those who think it evil and an abomination, they need to carry it back
to their church and preach to their choir.
This choir is not interested. We sing
about the joy of human love and fellowship in whatever form.