Why I really don't "care" about whether or not Gays get married.

As I sit here on my front porch reading TIME Magazine on my iPad, I can't help but give particular notice to its article Gay Marriage: The Coming Clash of Civil and Religious Liberties.

I'm a Libertarian. We're those "fiscally conservative, socially tolerant" folks who try and straddle both sids of the aisle. That's a pretty uncomfortable position. We also tend to be "independent voters" who spend our lives looking for the candidates who "offend us least". The "socially tolerant" aspect of Libertarians is often misunderstood. I'm not "in favor of" drug use, gay marriage, any particular race, religion, philosophy, or whatever. I simply believe that others personal choice, genetic markers, or cultural or biological presuppositions are not any of my business as long as those folks don't "hurt other people or take their stuff.". Simply put, I don't care... and neither should anyone else!

Gay marriage is a case in point. This clearly represents the personal choice of a group of people who either chose or are predisposed to a gay lifestyle. For the record, I believe that the science is "in" and homosexual behavior is the result of a biological predisposition that we just don't understand... like being born left handed. To be clear... the science is only a footnote because I consider the issue "none of my business... regardless."

I"m left handed. As a "lefty," I am aware of centuries of discrimination against those born with this biological predisposition.

Very few people realize that many of the world's religions discriminate against left handed people. Christianity discriminated against the synestral (a term reflecting the negative historical view of "left handedness") for over a thousand years (and perhaps still do in some of the more primitive areas of the world) because they considered those who demonstrated this trait were servants of the devil. In Matthew 6:3 of the Bible, Jesus instructed his followers that when they do charitable things, to "not let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth."

Jesus also expressed the following sentiments regarding the Judgment Day. "And before Him shall be gathered all nations; and He shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats; and He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, 'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world...' Then shall He say into them on the left hand, 'Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels...'

In the Old Testament, God told Jonah the wicked city of Nineveh contained people so sinful they "cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand," leaving us to infer that they cannot discern between good or evil. Greeks, in their worship of Zeus, posted sentries to watch people entering the holy temples and make sure they entered with their right foot, because entrance with the left foot was thought to curse the building. Also, the Greeks took care to never put their left leg over the right while crossing their legs. In Hindu rituals, followers are required at times to circle people and/or objects three times, from left to right to cleanse them.

To survive, those born with this biological predisposition (that we still don't understand) had to "pretend" to be right handed to fit in. Sound familiar?

The Bible actually gives Christianity more ammunition to discriminate against those of us born left handed than those born with a predisposition to homosexuality. Go figure?

If the Tea Party stayed out of what is clearly religious Doctrine and dropped its attempts to make Religious doctrine public policy... they would "have my heart and soul". Every time I hear one of the Tea Party's leading political figures give a speech and talk about "lower taxes," "smaller Government," and "Freedom from Government interference in our lives," I say to myself "yes".

Then, they drift into those divisive social issues that appear to a Libertarian such as myself at odds with their "small Government" mantra... and I simply hold my left hand in front of my face and wonder if I am capable of making this great of a compromise.