Bigots

I was listening to NPR this morning (OK, Wednesday morning) and listened to a report about the Christians in California responding to the recently legalized gay marriage. They think they'll get the state constitution changed so that courts can't say the ban is illegal. I hope their wrong.

So on the way to work I found myself singing a little ditty.

If you're a bigot and you know it say "Amen".
If you're a bigot and you know it say "Amen".
If you're a bigot and you know it
You know exactly how to show it
If you're a bigot and you know it say "Amen".

Yeah, there's a few religious people who aren't against two people of the same gender getting married. But they're few and far between.

Personally, I think the subject of marriage, gay or not, is a religious one. I'd take the government out of the equation completely. Just establish a legal contract between two people for all the same benefits of a marriage but call it something else. And if someone wants to use the word "marriage" then they can find a church willing to do it. Make it a fight between faiths and churches. As public opinion shifts one way or another churches can succeed or fail depending on how open minded or bigoted the local population is.