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So much hatefulness. It hurts. It smarts. In case you've been hiding under a rock, this is what's been going on in Massachusetts:

Gay-marriage ban backed, but uncertainty remains

I don't know... I'd like to give you some pat rhetoric about how gay couples are already married, how they already have children, about how calling the SJC "activist judges" is bullshit. But this issue is just too close to my heart. I went to the statehouse yesterday night afer I was finished with work, and I sat and ate my soup in the Common, not 200 yards from where a bunch of haters had put up a base camp, with their yellow stickers saying "support one man and one woman," and "Say no to gay marraige... Say Yes to Jesus."

Now, that's what really pisses me off. Bringing Jesus into this. There was a huge orange sign they'd put up in front of the statehouse that said "Jesus is Lord." That's great! Yay Jesus! But what does Jesus being Lord have to do with gay marriage? Since when is saying yes to Jesus incompatible with saying yes to gay marriage? Jesus hung out with the dregs of society, after all—adulteresses and tax collectors and lepers. He stopped an angry mob from stoning a woman, saying "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

Jesus was a rule-breaker. He was a rebel, a tradition-challenger. If he could love him some whores and extortionists, I find it hard to believe he'd have a problem with some nice, happy, stable families who treat their children with more love and respect than many straight couples I've come across.

And most importantly, perhaps, he was the scion of a merciful God. I think that he is weeping now, or at the very least, hanging his head in shame at what his so-called followers are doing in his name. Hatred was never part of Jesus's teachings. That came later, with Paul.