I see Faux News is reporting this morning that the total raised for the fight over Proposition 8 in California is something like 74 million dollars.  Let me repeat that: 74 Million Dollars. 

There’s your fall of western civilization right there.  Not same sex marriage, but that it’s a knife fight, just to let loving, devoted couples tie the knot. 

Who still believes in this day and age that gay people are twisted sub-human monsters?  I don’t think half the people voting today to cut the ring fingers off their gay and lesbian neighbors think that.  I doubt a tenth of them think that.  But they are all of them, all of them, taking right now, right this moment, some kind of visceral self righteous pleasure in sucking the hopes and dreams from our lives.