Be adults about marriage

To the haters: The U.S. Supreme Court has decided the status of our gay citizens today as couples, when they choose to be. It’s been a long, hard struggle that is still only partially over because, despite the ruling, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people will still be subject to unfounded and unreasonable hatred.

I’m aware that people aren’t going to automatically be reasonable about gay marriage, but it is reasonable to expect people to not be concerned about something that does not affect them personally. Gays are not making straights enter gay relationships or marriage. They are not dragging you into their lives and bedrooms against your will. They are not going into your churches and telling you how to worship. They want to be just another face in a crowd, with no scrutiny in public.

At the same time, they want you to stop obsessing over what you imagine they are doing in private, much like they do not obsess over your private, personal religious beliefs, which you often use to demonize them in public.

So stop peeking in their windows like Peeping Toms and showing a perverse interest where you don’t belong. Just grow up, go home and be adults. It’s not difficult.

David Cannon

Spokane