Thousands of people, these last few days, have taken to the streets of Los Angeles and New York to protest California's November 4th ballot initiative which banned gay marriage.
What the majority did to the gay community in California was just wrong.
And most likely un-Constitutional.
Let us be clear - this issue is NOT a Gay Rights issue, but is, instead, a Civil Rights issue.
It is NOT about protecting or children - conscientious parents surely know what marriage ceremonies their children are, or are NOT, attending. If a parent doesn't wish to have their child attend a gay marriage ceremony - they are well within their rights to do so.
This issue is NOT about protecting the so-called sanctity of heterosexual marriage - divorce, after all, is perfectly legal, and there is not, to my knowledge, any popular support for a ban on divorce.
The Constitutional question is whether or not a particular prevailing religious view can be imposed upon a minority by the majority.
The prevailing religious view, of course, is that homosexuality is a sin, and, as such, our society should not condone gay marriage.
While a lot of Journal-Standard readers might be, this very moment, shaking their heads in total agreement with this sentiment, it is an opinion that violates the rights of the gay community to worship as they please.
At one time, the prevailing religious view was that interacial couples were living sinful lives... it took the Supreme Court to strike down the last of America's anti-interacial marriage bans in the landmark Loving v. Virginia case - and that only happened in 1967.
If the religious majority in this country can ban gay marriage, they very well might go after interacial marriages, or even divorce.
From there, we're back to burning witches, and forcing religious conversion.
Real Americans who oppose gay marriage can get over the "ick" factor - we are, after all, made of very strong stuff.
Our society neither condones, nor condemns, such Biblical sins as legalized prostitution and gambling. But neither of these "sins" single out a minority group as targets in the way that banning gay marriage does.
It is time for those who oppose gay marriage to get over themselves.
We cast ballots in this great land of ours - not stones.
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
Let 'em marry.