Heterosexuals Use Homosexual Agenda to Look Cool

My goal with this title was to write an Onion-style post about Utah's recent lift on their constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and how heterosexuals state-wide got a piece of the equality pie. I was going to quote myself as an internet-ordained minister spewing some rainbow language about how I was honored to help the homos get married on Monday the 23rd before the expected emergency stay on the decision which would have prevented marriages until the Supreme Court heard the case. I was going to say that I had to elbow out other ministers in order to marry folks in front of the cameras of Fox news and CNN.

But I am not that witty. I am more of the sappy type.

I did get ordained on the internet after I heard there might be ministers needed onsite to quickly marry couples before the stay.

I did post all over Facebook spewing rainbow-worded equality love.

And then I felt so guilty about the responses I was getting because, well, this isn't about me at all.

But then I thought, it kind of is. It is kind of about all of us.

Homosexual rights is the major civil rights movement of today (not that the civil rights movement of the 50's and 60's is over, because it isn't). And civil rights issues effect everyone. I am a heterosexual white middle class female. So aside front the female part, I am a pretty privileged individual. But anyone with a family member or a friend who is denied basic human rights because of the way they look or who they love feels the pain of inequality. I have both of those things. And seeing people that I love, admire, respect and look up to treated differently than myself by the country we both live in is downright enraging.

So, on Monday Jim and I took our little fetus and joined the masses at the Salt Lake County Clerk's Office to first, witness and be a part of history and second, marry some folks if we were needed to do so. We were among many actual ministers (from actual churches) who took part in the day's affairs. We were not needed in any way, but we caught the major love-bug as we watched couples get married. Some couples had been together over 20 years, some had children, and some were newly engaged and giddy. We saw children crying with joy to see their moms or dads finally recognized as family in the state they call home.

I did have the incredible honor of marrying two men whom I knew through a friend and will now know forever. It was amazing to marry a couple that was so obviously in love, gay or straight. It made me think about how our friend Rick must have felt when he married us. With Jim's arm around me I pronounced them husband and husband and it made me the happiest I'd been since my own wedding day. To watch two previously denied people pledge their love to one another, hurting no one and no institution felt fucking amazing.

Proving that homosexual rights is one of the most polite, non-violent social fights in history, Monday night's rally was tranquil and humbling. While we recognized that the fight isn't over, we collectively and peacefully told those who think homosexuality is wrong (or otherwise less-than heterosexuality) that the people don't agree with them. That the country is moving in a different direction. And that if they want to progress with the rest of the nation, they better start readjusting their moral compass.