For Lent this year I've been trying very hard to avoid the news. This hasn't been easy as it seems to pop up everywhere.

Among the "fun" things lately has been the association of noncishet folks with pedophiles. Calling us "groomers" whenever we interact with children and, especially if we answer any questions about basic biology the kid might want to know or even mention we have a same-gender spouse.

What's really "fun" is that in Tennessee they're proposing a law to remove age restrictions from marriage. So the same crowd accusing us of being pedophiles is eager to allow adults to marry children but, somehow, that's not pedophilia. Likely because it'll almost certainly be an older man marrying some girl and thus heterosexual which, as we all know, is the only "normal" relationship, right?

Now, the bill is only proposed. I hope it fails utterly. If it passes, though, it'll just be another example of hypocrisy when it comes to sex and sexuality.