Thanks for ruining another great day for me. Thanks for coming home and immediately starting your daily gay-bashing. Thanks for telling me that if I could ever get married, that all I'd do is "clog up the divorce courts." Thanks for making me feel like I'm not a human being worthy of human rights. Thank you for making my views on the American people even more twisted. Thanks for making me loathe Conservatives. Thanks for being another bigoted Southerner. Thanks for letting me know just how much you hate me and my "lifestyle." Thanks for making me feel like I'm different somehow, like I belong in a group of lepers. Thanks for making me feel like a leech in my own house. Thanks for making me feel like I can never come to you for help or advice. Thanks for giving me every reason to distrust the ones I look up to. Thanks for making me feel worthless. Thanks for making my self-loathing slowly creep back. Thanks for letting me know that you hope I'm dead before Alabama ever allows same-sex couples to wed. Thanks for telling me you hope I'm never happy.

But mostly, thank you for giving me something to fight for. Thanks for letting me know what kind of mindless hate I'm up against. Thank you for showing me just how blatantly ignorant the opposers to human rights are. Thanks for giving me something to hope and believe in. Thanks for making me want to get involved in my government. Thanks for making me want to make a change for the better.