* Sigh

So, after reading this story and this story, I just have to let out a sigh in a bit of frustration about living in Texas. And it is not because of the gay issue, but because of the self-indulgence that people who live states like Texas (or Tennessee, or Alabama, or Georgia, or the Carolinas...) is accostumed to. Nothing that questions the orthodoxy of their traditional beliefs can be questioned because they shut it down, and people hang on desperately to them because, in many cases, that's the only substance to their lives. The less self-questioning and questioning of their beliefs, the better. So, let's watch infomercials and crawl into our shells instead of being exposed to someone else's point of view, regardless of how much we disagree with it.