Hopefully, with the death of the old backwards bigots, America will change. There is the big political battle, and there is also the everyday in everyway little successes that will eat out the roots of the homophobia plants, nourished by sick and hateful religions whose only goal is power and money.

We recently showed Trembling before God at our local Reform Jewish Synagogue here in MD. It is about being Orthodox Jew and gay, and how that branch of our religion plays the same game the Catholic church plays with gays, denying them the right to have a partner and a meaningful relationship because of what I call ancient historical garbage written thousands of years ago. Our Rabbi said he was amazed how the gay Jewish Orthodox people were so stuck on their Orthodox religion that they couldn’t drop it completely and just walk away. Just another example of people so brainwashed by religion that they forget that that when their cousins went up hitler’s smokestacks, their ashes were mixed with the gays of Germany as well.

And maybe we all understand why going to the temple, even a liberal one, is a chore, that I occasionally do, just to keep my female partner of 40 years happy.