Dear Gay People

I'm writing this mostly because of Tennessee's new attempt at creating yet another class of aggrieved/protected/special people. I'm against it, of course.

I don't think gay people need any more protection than what their favorite sidearm gives them. I don't think more "anti discrimination" laws will do any good, whether it applies to marriage, the workplace, or anywhere else.

Gay people can be subject to discrimination, of course they can. So can anybody else. A lot of it hinges on choices they make.

Here's the deal: if you act outside the norm, you are no longer "normal". It's not who you find sexually attractive, I truly believe you have no choice over that. I didn't, so why should you?

You do, however, have choices in your actions. If you do things most people don't, then you may very well be singled out for it and talked about/condemned/ostracised, depending on what you chose to do, and the relative up-tightedness of those around you. Holding hands with your lover might not provoke any reactions from onlookers, making out passionately at a baseball game might.

I don't care what you do with your sex partner. It's a private matter and I don't want to hear about it. That goes for non-gay people as well. Don't want to hear about it.

Do what you want in private, but there's nothing wrong with acting like a mature adult in public.

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