What the Anti Gay Rights Folks Fail to Understand About the Gay Rights Movement Today

What anti gay rights folks fail to understand about the current gay rights movement is that young gay men and women just don't give a fuck anymore.  Let me give you an example.  I'm 28 years old, when I was a freshman in high school, half my lifetime ago, I had a classmate who was out.  He had been out since middle school.  No one cared.  Did I mention that I went to an all boys catholic high school.  No one cared...except of course for the administration, and that was really only when he forced them to care.  You see, he was one of the top students (he got a full ride scholarship to a name institution), he sang at chapel, he was one of the stars of the theater department, he was a really nice guy, he was everything that they could possibly have hoped for in a student. They didn't make an issue of his being gay.  But then senior year rolled around, and he wanted to bring a date to prom, a guy.  They said no.  He circulated a petition, and we all signed it.  They still said no, and of course when we debated it in religion class the answer we got was "because his taking a date implies they'll have sex, and that's a sin."  Well that's good old catholic church hypocrisy for you; no one in our class was married, making the implied sex we might have with our dates a sin too.  But that's not really the point I'm making. The point I'm making is that when the Church, or any societal institution or group in America tells young gay men and women what they can and can't do these days, they tell them to go fuck themselves. And their friends do too.  Everything that the anti gay rights movement is fighting for, from this bullshit anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment in North Carolina, to the mealy-mouthed walk back of Joe Biden's statement about his comfort with gay marriage,  all of this will be rolled away some day.  My generation knows this, we grew up with it, we don't give a fuck.