All Things Sullivan

he boy and I had an amazing opportunity to see Andrew Sullivan read from his book and speak about marriage. What was so amazing about it was that it was on the day that same-sex couples were allowed to wed in Massachusetts. Some of what he said was political, some of what he said was personal but all of it was spot-on correct. I later got to see him on MSNBC "debating" (and I use this term loosely) Bishop Paul Morton, a black Baptist from Louisiana. Andrew was, of course, engaging, witty and intelligent and the poor Bishop could only state and re-state that God told him that gay marriage is wrong. Of course what pissed me off the most were his vitriolic statements of outrage that the gay community would use comparisons of black civil rights for what he sees as an abomination. I'm outraged that he is outraged and values my civil liberties less than his. And of course, when Andrew respectfully pointed out that many prominent black leaders, including John Lewis and Coretta "God-forbid-we-say-anything-bad-about-her-because-she-was-married-to-a-saint" Scott King, are in full support of equal marriage rights for all, the only thing the poor misguided bishop could say was, well, that God told him it was wrong. Way to enter into a debate about civil marriage there, Paulie...

I'm becoming more and more convinced each day that the reason that equal marriage rights opponents can't come up with any rational and articulate way to state their opposition is because there is no rational or articulate opposition.