The Chik-fil-a debacle

What surprises me most...

Is certainty.  Specifically, the certainty that many of the entrenched camps have on the issue of homosexuality and this Chik-fil-a debacle.

All too often has history rebuked the views we once held.  This certainty that we pretend only inhibits productive discussion on the matter.  I am not sure what to think about homosexuals and their right to be united in the eyes of our society.  My inclination is to grant it special category, while preserving and respecting historical definitions.  However, I hope to never speak in such a way that it attempts to silence the voice of my dissidents, for they are my true source of growth and development.   Gay marriage is a new idea and like all new ideas, it NEEDS criticism and analysis.  It is not necessarily beneficial to our society, nor is it necessarily harmful.  It is unclear if at this point we will look back in 50 years and say wow, we were dumb.  We may, but such is the nature of our culture, that is to say that it is temporal.  Every development, is just that, a development.  It must be viewed as such.  The development might result in nothing, but it also might result in dramatic change.  Any inhibitor of development, such as staunch ideaology, should be chastised.
This has implications for the anti-homosexual party as well.  It must view the rise of homosexuality (at least in secular arena) as a development as well.  One which could and probably will have sweeping affects on the cultural conceptions of union, morals, and mental health.

Moreover, I wish everyone would stop pretending that they knew the answer and that both parties would start respecting the other's right to voice their opinions and put them into practice in a manner and fashion consistent with modern laws.  Dan Cathy, I give you the thumbs up.  But to many of my friends on both sides of the isle, I chide you for your insolence and intellectual arrogance.  I wish those who berate gay people as immoral  publicly while themselves being immoral (as we all are) would stop. And I wish those gay people or straight people who would admit that their own movement like all movements needs skepticism.  For it, like ALL positions, oversteps the line at times. We should all note that time has yet to test almost any of our views and the cultural organizations which manifest those views.  And we should welcome any chance for debate because debate is the means by which we rid ourselves of the ignorance which our temporality necessarily brings.