It may seem like ignorance and hate are sweeping across America. From state to state, laws legalizing the discrimination against gay American citizens from businesses are popping up, making headlines, and causing much-deserved outcry. And, like a virus, this hatred would appear to be spreading, initiating all infected to wipe their asses with the Constitution.

Yes, it does appear that the evil is spreading and one cannot be blamed for fearing a “snowball” effect, leading us to a gay Holocaust in this country.

But I say thee, this is not the case. I say this is a symptom of something wonderful and powerful! I urge you to not fear. As it was recently pointed out to me by a loved one, this is all happening from the conservatives because they are losing and losing badly. When an animal is injured and dying, sometimes it will lash out. Sometimes it will slash and chomp in a last ditch effort to do as much damage to the one killing it before it finally goes down. If you don’t like such cruel imagery, then I apologize. Let’s say, instead, it’s a comic book villain who, upon knowing he is going to lose to the hero, points his laser blast and fires one last time. My anologies, are rough, but I do believe that this hate is dying.

The hate-mongers proposing these laws are losing from every front. Every. Fucking. Front. Hate is dying.

Poll after poll shows the gap on the gay marriage issue closing, with more Americans supporting marriage equality every year. Hate is dying.

More Americans, including gay Americans, have more freedom right now, at this exact moment, then they ever have in the history of this country. Hate is dying.

GLBT Americans have been cheering as, victory after victory, seventeen states now allow marriage equality, including our country’s capitol. Hate is dying.

Gay people are protected in work places across the country, whether by state law, city law, or company policy. Hate is dying.

Gay people are free to be themeselves with less fear for their physical safety or public scorning than ever before. Hate is dying.

Gay people are portrayed more positively and more inclusively in the media. Hate is dying.

On a federal level, every lawsuit that brings the core principles of this country to light, whether it is DOMA or married same-sex couple benefits ends on the side of justice, because hate is dying.

And that, my friends, is why we are seeing these conservative death throes which have manifested themselves as these petulent, spiteful, time-wasteful, doomed-from-the-start laws, none of which has passed as of this writing. So fear not, it will be all be okay. These laws are coming to the table out of pure, pathetic desperation, and they are a sign of better days ahead. While they stew in their malice and loathing, let’s kick our feet up and smile, knowing that, should one of these outrageous laws pass, it will not survive long.

The hate is dying. Oh, it will take some other form to be sure, but for now, these particular people carrying this particular type of hatred are a dying breed…and they know it.