DINOSAURS TO HOMOPHOBES: COME JOIN US

Amazingly, a day after North Carolina passed a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage, President Obama publically came out of the political closet and endorsed gay marriage. Back in 1996, Illinois State Senate candidate Obama supported gay marriage but "closeted" his true belief during the 2008 campaign to get elected. Sadly, to do otherwise may have doomed his presidential chances in a land still dominated by homophobes. Even today,thirty states expressly prohibit gay marriage while only seven have legalized it. Sadly, gay marriages in those seven are not recognized by the federal government due to the pernicious Defense of Marriage Act (1996) which should be called the Defense of Homophobia Act.


But the President has promoted gay civil rights throughout his first term and he took the ultimate step yesterday with his courageous challenge to the homophobe dead enders. Back in the 1950's when I first connected with the black civil rights movement, I viewed with dismay the racist dead enders who shouted "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever". They reminded me of dinosaurs, roaming the land not realizing their days were numbered. Some lived out their lives as unrepentant racists, but many expunged the poison of hate from their soul and went on to live more human, productive lives.

The homophobic community of today should take note: you've officially ceded the moral high ground in this debate. You need to examine your heart and come to terms with the bumpy but inevitable tide of human progress. Otherwise, you will go the way of the racist dinosaurs and end up on the scrapheap of human evolution.