I’m so disgusted by my fellow citizens I could scream.

A guy walks into a gay bar, and is immediately greeted by his best friend in tears because her right to fall in love, marry and pursue her own happiness has been denied by the people she shares a state with.

Waiting for a punch-line? There isn’t one.

There is nothing funny about the horrific injustice that has been dealt to the gays and lesbians of Wisconsin. I’ve never been an “I’m so proud to be from Wisconsin” person, partly because I’m not from here, but up until last night I didn’t exactly hate the place either.

Now, I’m so disgusted by my fellow citizens I could scream. In every single history class I’ve ever taken I’ve been told that slavery, American Indian relocation and Japanese imprisonment were just flukes — they are not part of what America is really about. Congratulations Wisconsin, last night you made liars out of every history teacher I’ve ever had.

The U.S. was founded on discrimination. The Puritans left England because they were being persecuted, and as soon as they landed here they found the American Indians and decided to take their aggression out on them. The U.S. is a classic case study of the victim-becomes-aggressor syndrome. I do not understand how anyone has the right to determine who a person falls in love with. We love to say we’ve changed, but we’ve really just gotten better at good public relations for bigotry.

A reminder: the church has no place in the determining of any law in this country, but almost all the people I’ve met who shut their brains off for the two seconds it took to vote “yes” did it because the Bible says homosexuality is immoral.

That’s a load of crap, and shame on anyone who voted “yes” based on that viewpoint. The last time I checked there were laws separating the church from the state, but hey, American law has been going to hell since Bush took office, so in a sick sad way it makes sense that the Christian Right is digging its claws into this too.

To those who voted yes based on personal disgust, get over it. Until you are forced to watch a same-sex couple screw ala “A Clockwork Orange” you have no right to say anything about who a person sleeps with, and that goes for marriage too. You’re not being hurt by it, and that thing right below your skull is meant to rotate. Try looking away.

To those who think that allowing gay marriage would cost the institution credibility, watch Fox sometime and say that again. Marriage is already a joke to most people in this country, allowing two people who love each other to marry won’t do any damage that hasn’t already been done.

One more thing to anyone who does the bi-for-a-night thing or goes nuts over two girls kissing and still voted yes, you are a disgusting hypocrite.

I am so ashamed of this state.

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