Obama–Gay Marriage OK

So the political right is up in a frappin’ tizzy over the fact that President Obama finally said he did have a not problem with gay marriage. The loonies said that Obama has now declared “war on marriage” and it will open the door to the decline of heterosexual marriages. So the question is, “How are those straight marriages doing”?

Here in blue Massachusetts, gay marriage has been legal since 2004 and the effect on straight marriages has been… well nothing! Here we are almost eight years since gay marriages started and straights are still getting hitched and divorced like they did before. All the talk of the demise of marriage hasn’t occurred and we had expected it not to have any affect on straight marriages.

Of course one of our resident far right loonies, Rick Santorum, recently had this to say regarding gay marriage and his sorta buddy Mitt Romney - "Hopefully Governor Romney will continue to stand tall for his position on this issue and understand how detrimental it would be for society for it to have this [marriage thing] changed.”

I guess it’s been pretty “detrimental” for us here in Massachusetts. Curiously, has anyone seen any problems?

My view is that heterosexual marriages are one of the last bastions of privilege that the white, mostly male Christians have that they can raise a stink about. They seem to think that if gays get married then they’ll intrude on their territory (what ever that it) and have privileges that only the straights had regarding marriage.

If they are very worried about marriages, why don’t they work on making sure that their heterosexual marriages work instead of bashing a very small minority of people. What’s the saying about don’t go throwing rocks in a glass house? Looks like 50% of the windows are blown out. Think about it.