Open letter you'll never read.

Don't worry, it won't take you long not to read it.

Because I finally have had to come around and really stare at the fact that there are simply some things you don't want to be expected to care about.

The answer I didn't want to hear finally got there. You've been trying to tell me for years, sorry I'm so "fick."

This was the answer:

"Plenty ... more than most people ... just not that much."

I'm not really surprised, just disappointed.

I'm sorry I ever made the mistake of thinking the answer might have been "that much."

That was my fault.

Apples and oranges ... and homos.

Just need to get an false equivalency argument off my chest, because it's been chewing on the coattails of my medulla for a week now.

Now, I understand that some people are just homophobic, and that's all there is to the story. For some reason, they believe they have a right to sit in judgment over other people whose lives affect theirs little, if at all.

Personally, I'd hate my own guts if I allowed xenophobia -- that great, overwhelming 'fear of other' -- to run my life the way people who hate others that way let it run theirs, but I'm sort of digressing here.

The great apples and oranges argument many of these fear-raddled little mice will bellow at the tops of their squeaky, paranoid little voices, is this:

"I'm not homophobic. I just don't think anybody who isn't married should get the same benefits as somebody who isn't. I don't think heterosexual couples who aren't married should have those benefits, either."

The apple? "Heterosexual couples should get married or suffer from diminished benefits in the society."

The orange? "Homos shouldn't be allowed to get married, so we can eternally deny them any of the benefits of heterosexual marriage."

Any time any of the cowering little dunces I deal with offers me this false equivalency argument from their piss-stained diapers, I'm just going to say it:

"Your theory would hold a whole lot more water if it weren't for the fact that hateful people just like you have made it impossible for them to get married. If they had a choice, I'd be right there with your intolerant bullshit -- it would be unfair, if they were on the same playing field as the rest of us."

I'm sick to death of people who let their xenophobia determine everything about their lives. It's gross and sub-human. Grow up.