Read an article in the past couple of days that the Christian Civic League has dropped their effort to repeal Maine's gay rights laws. I normally just plain don't comment on gay rights. It's sort of like holding a hand grenade in your hand, pulling the pin, releasing the spoon and then not throwing it. But this article prompts me to make the rare exception. Well here goes.

I have to start by explaining that I'm a bigot. I believe that every adult human on the face of this earth is a bigot with a possible few exceptions (Mother Teresa comes to mind). Those who claim they aren't bigots have to add the term liar to their profile. I'm also an overweight, middle aged, white male who is a flaming heterosexual. Have been ever since I knew the difference and won't apologize for it. I sit around the picnic table with the boys at work and we make politically incorrect comments. We don't discriminate because we slam every racial and ethnic group as well as politicians and TV personalities equally. We even slam each other and I can - and often do - take it as well as I can dish it out. So what does all this have to do with gay rights you ask? Simply that I don't think that I or you or the Christian Civic League has the right to tell any adult what other consenting adult they can select as their lover or life partner. You don't tell me and I don't tell you. I and the CCL don't have the right to tell you where you can live, what job you can hold and so on. This is basic human decency and even a bigoted, overweight, flaming heterosexual white male such as myself can realize this. Whether or not you like someone else's choice in partner or not has nothing to do with anything. I'm glad that the CCL is unable to raise enough money and volunteers to run their petition campaign. It means that people in Maine are solidly in the camp of human decency and plan to stay there. Perhaps the CCL can do some good in the state by turning their efforts to helping the poor or spending time with elderly shut ins. Their efforts so far were something I don't consider Christian or Civic. WWJD?

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