As I drove toward Oklahoma, I had to pass through the religious corridor.

This is a section of interstate 44 where there seems to be a church every so many feet, with Burma Shave type road signs attributing condemnatory quotes to Jesus and God.

I am not a member of any of the churches that I passed along the way, nor am I sure what separated each denomination from another, but I was sure the differences were minor interpretations of old Hebrew texts.

I have a comfortable relationship with the deity as I choose him to be, and do not find that I need answers from a humanly established system of beliefs that others do and find in the church of their choice.

The only thing I knowingly share with the members of the congregations I passed was that they and I are American citizens protected by the Constitution and sharing the unalienable rights with which the creator endowed us.

Anything else is personal and based on individual choices.

I had left Cape Cod in the early afternoon of Monday, June 15.

I had once lived in Oklahoma, but had spent a couple of years in Massachusetts where people were actually living in a society I had done what I could do to bring about in OK, and before that, California

I was effectively leaving the 21st Century to spend some time in the 19th.

I know quite a few people who have fought for equality in Oklahoma, and I was on my way to celebrate Gay Pride Week with as many as I could run into.

Pride Week alone was good fear fodder for the religious shows I was getting on the Radio from the time I left Pennsylvania, but the impeding decision by the Supreme Court on marriage equality was due, so there was an extra reason for hyperbolic bloviating and totally invented threats passed on as God’s honest truth to those who just absorbed what was aired.

The basic theme was that no one was going to force any preacher with a radio show, at least, to perform a Gay wedding.

Nope.
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Just won’t do it.

They can lock me away for my religious conviction.

I have religious courage in Jesus.

What they do not seem to understand is that anyone who is serious about getting married will attempt to make it a joyous event, and will seek out those who will make it one.

No one is going to pick a church at random for a wedding, and in all the years of same sex marriage in Massachusetts, no one has forced a clergy member to perform a wedding.

It seemed as I was driving that I was not hearing any legitimate argument to support denying taxpaying citizens their rights other than a tax exempt organization was in favor of the idea. And while ignoring 11 years of proof to the contrary, as none of the inevitable disasters and persecutions began when marriage equality began in Massachusetts, the preachers just kept repeating lists of God’s wrath events that will now happen.

Now after the decision was released, it seems that with attention on people’s rights, the churches see the spot light is shifting and are desperately trying to control the story.

No one is going to arrest you for not performing a wedding. The couple would have had to have been morons to approach such a pastor in the first place.

Doesn’t the couple talk to anyone?

And what Gay person doesn’t know a baker, a hair dresser, a caterer, or someone who just loves to organize parties, and has to approach such people at random and blindly.

It was on the Morning of Friday, June 26, as I was swooping through West Virginia that I heard the SCOTUS decision on Marriage Equality. I knew there would be a big rally in Oklahoma City, and I would have loved to have been at it. But reality is what it is.

But I knew this time that by the time I got back to the 21st Century , my friends in the Red States would be there with me.