The drive to write fanfic, like being gay, is an intrinsic part of personality and psyche, and not removable without bizarre brainwashing techniques which pretty much destroy the entire personal identity.

I'm fully aware that various artistic drives are a lot less important as societal issues than the right to marry.

I'm aware that Lee Goldberg's anti-fanfic rants are teacup storms, the proper reaction to which is the occasional fandom_wank entry, and that Phelps' protesting gay funerals is oppression, the proper reaction to which involves police activity and congressional rulings.

But a difference in scale doesn't mean a difference in core issues. And as long as the right for equal marriage is perceived as "gays want to have legal sex," it'll be ignored--it has to be framed as "all people deserve equal rights to express their love and commitment."

Please get some perspective.

I'm happy with my perspective. I'm open to more, if you're sharing.