For a country big on privacy, we spend a lot of time minding other people’s business.

I include in this all the time spent debating gay marriage. Why do we care who marries whom?

Have we solved all the more-pressing issues? Did we solve the education crisis only to realize kids aren’t learning to read because Bert and Ernie sleep together?

This is religion sticking its head where it doesn’t belong.  (Which is ironic, given that sticking things where they don’t belong is their main complaint.)

People are afraid of creating loveless marriages of convenience. Too late. People complain about children being raised without a mother or father. Too late. People worry about a skyrocketing divorce rate (Ha. You don’t want them to marry because you’re afraid they’ll get unmarried?). Too late.

We have an abundance of opportunity in this country to make a profound difference, and spending our time budding into personal lives is no way to get that done.

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