I’ve heard it said that, everything that used to be in the closet is now out of the closet. And things that used to be out of the closet and openly approved of are going into the closet.
Examples - homosexuality, pornography, drug use, out of wedlock parenting - all used to be underground closeted activities. Now they are openly celebrated or openly permitted.
On the flip side — values once shared and approved of by the culture, such as religious faith, are being forced out of public life, and practitioners of religious faith are being told to get out of the public square, and get in the closet, out of sight, figuratively speaking.
The Republicans need to start highlighting what happens after these rulings. Schools ban words like father/mother, and Christian bakers/photographers/t-shirt makers get sued or run out of business.
Indeed. Sometimes I look at America-2014, and it reminds me of that old “Star Trek” episode “Mirror, Mirror,” in which it seems I’ve slipped into some kind of deviant mirror-universe, in which good is now evil, and evil is now good. Everything has become the opposite.
It becomes impossible to look at my own country or my own fellow citizens the same way I used to. It saps all sense of connection or allegiance I ever maintained. I can’t stand by and support a country that has become so sick, ugly and morally depraved. That’s what this fag-marriage has ushered in, as far as I’m concerned.