Stop and Think

So I'm sure everyone knows that recently NY State has legalized gay/lesbian marriages....( I live in Upstate NY ) I couldnt have been happier and more proud of my state for passing the law and continuing to show America's wonderful sense of freedoms.
Then came the stories about the handful of people who's " religious " beliefs caused them to not accept the fact that NY State had basically said it was ok for homosexuals to get married. The marriage clerk who resigned because she refused to marry gay couples, the people protesting and holding up signs that homosexuals are evil and G-d will damn them to hell because they have nothing more significant to do...Well...todays news was the last straw for me. A preacher ( African American ) evangelists something or another, gathered with 24 protesters demanding NY revoke the new law and let the people vote on whether or not it should be legal.( which by the way, I believe hetero sexuals are out numbered here) Being that I am a former USMC, I am all for our freedom of speech. I just wish people would speak after consulting their common sense. The news camera zoomed in and interviewed a older couple of the church. They began saying how awful it was, and against what god wants and blah blah blah. The couple was bi-racial. The male was black, and the female was caucasian. I started screaming at the television, and my kids must of thought I was a total psycho!!! Here was my issue....Up until about 1970 something, maybe even later, it was illegal for a black man to marry a white woman...And although it is legal today, it is still met with community opposition. Did this couple not realize that they were a walking talking contradiction? Did the African American male forget that at one point slavery was legal? Did the Woman forget that at one point women were not allowed to vote, think, speak etc? My point is, you may not like the way the world changes, but if it has changed for your benefit at one point or another, think about how you would feel if a bunch of idiots got together and demanded your right to have rights be " voted on "..... There are millions of other issues that people should be more concerned about...like how rapists and child molesters get 1/4 the time in jail then a person caught with illegal substances do...or how thanks to Republicans free birth control and women and children based services are being shut down...how our schools are being attacked and how our children will be effected when they are elderly and there is no medicaid...I could go on forever. How people really believe that two humans of the same sex being in love and getting married will destroy our world is beyond me. ( And like my dear friend says: " Three words to solve our nations debt: GAY MARRIAGE REGISTERY" LOL!!!