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Just when it looks like the bigots have left the field, they emit a dying gasp.

A strong one.

States Weigh Legislation to Let Businesses Refuse to Serve Gay Couples

This means that John and I will not be able to have lunch on the road or stay at a motel or any of the other common every day privileges of living in the US.

We have been at this a long time and remember when in some areas it was illegal for a hotel to allow a single bedded room for two people of the same sex. Or, lacking a rule or regulation, they just acted on their own biases.

You would think that, with these people, business would trump morals but that is not the case.

I figure that the high resulting from exercising one's homophobia is a pretty potent one.

You know that moralists, even the ones who are not closet cases, get off on moralizing. It is their true religion. Their church is selected to reinforce the personal belief.

This effort will not stand, of course, but it is a part of the end game. The last skirmishes before putting down arms. Acquiescence. Surrender.

We know what to do. We go to these places and sit in their fucking booths or tables and hold hands. Sit ins.

Any black person or many women can tell you that passing the laws is prologue to the real battle, the actual fight. Same with us.

Labels: gay rights