If comments, email, and general righteous indignation are any indication, I expect I've lost about 20% of my readership of Double Take this week. Sorry to see you all go, just three chapters from the end of the story. Your choice.
In 2016, it was a surprise to me to discover I was a liberal. I didn't know that. I thought I was just trying to be a good and kind person. Apparently, however, I simply don't have the hardcore binary worldview necessary to be anything else. I don't work on a binary mindset. Black and white views of the world don't mesh with the technicolor vision I have acquired through my travels and life experience. Call it liberal, progressive, socialist, anti-religious, or whatever you want, I will continue to paint realistic and accepting views of people of all kinds and will not be subjected to narrow visions of sexual identity, religious ideology, or political parties.
Hit hard by the response to my story, I decided I might as well offend as many people as I can and write about my position regarding the anti-abortion laws that are popping up around the country like cancers on our civil liberties. You can read the blog post, if you have the stomach for it, at firstexit0.blogspot.com
Since I've had such a good time beginning chapters of Double Take with quotes from other, more famous and better written stories, I'll leave you with this:
"And I certainly refuse to change the story to suit their whims." -Isaac Asimov, The Best of Isaac Asimov