A collective renaissance of thought and intention has been experienced by much of the United States over the past decade in regards to whether one should be allowed to love someone who happens to have the same kind of genitalia.
The fervor for the freedom to marry whomever one wishes has driven a growing number of states to legalize and welcome gay marriage. While there has been much progress made, hate-groups such as The Family Research Council have done all in their power to repress the very thing they believe in: love.
With the Supreme Court set to hear a case pertaining to same-sex marriage bans from four states on April 28th , Tony Perkins, the president of The Family Research Council, has made an edict to all listening:
?As legal and government assaults against Christians in the last few years have demonstrated, religious liberty and forced same-sex ?marriage? cannot coexist.?
This kind of brazen posturing is an apt microcosm for the state of the crumbling and radical religious right. They are too set in their Old Testament beliefs to divorce themselves from intolerance.
One should keep in mind that this is the same deluded man who has shouted drivel like claiming that people who refuse to serve gay people will be sent to concentration camps.
Regardless of his clear neurosis, Tony Perkins has a large audience that listens. He is calling for 21 days of fasting and prayer to tip the scales of justice and keep the matrimonial gays at bay.
Regardless of whether there is power in prayer,? the importance lies in the fact that there are real humans willing to starve themselves to petition a deity of love so that he or she will put a stop to humans loving one another.
Tony Perkins has a longer history of involvement with same-sex issues than most same-sex individuals. He’s obsessed over an issue that he allegedly has nothing to do with. He once warned that same-sex marriage would lead to a large-scale revolution in America. While Perkins seems to be a man belligerently incorrect about most things, he may be correct about that one.
There is indeed a revolution happening. It is one that we are in the midst of, whether Perkins likes it or not.
The revolution is love.
