I don’t speak for any gay people. I’m speaking for me. In the scheme of things, I don’t know that many gay people beyond casual acquaintances — and I live in West Hollywood. The vast majority of my friends happen to be straight, because what other people do in bed is is not on my list of criteria for seeking new friends.

The fact that you thought I’m an ambassador from Gayville might explain why you thought I would just take your insults and smears politely and ask for more. That’s the same exaggerated sense of entitlement that Mormons had about Prop 8 — thinking you could fund a hate campaign but not suffer retaliation.

Good luck with the prophets and all that. I sincerely hope we get the opportunity to vote on restricting Mormons’ civil rights some day, too.

The church could have raised $20 million to feed the hungry, clothe the poor or house the homeless. Instead, it raised half the money for a campaign of hatred built on lies and smears that stripped taxpaying Americans of equal rights. As a result, the church has millions of enemies now that it didn’t have before.

In joining the persecution of gays, Mormon leaders hoped to form alliances with the evangelicals — the least tolerant of all Americans and the same group who rejected Mitt Romney because of his Mormonism in 2008 and whose antecedents in the 19th century tarred and feathered Mormon leaders and drove them from their towns.

By appointing themselves to the morality police, Mormons have invited scrutiny of their own sordid past. Most Americans don’t know about Mountain Meadows or about the actions by early Mormon leaders — the abuse of children and women — that incited the tarring and feathering. They don’t know about the magic underwear, the “spiritual” polygamy that is still being practiced today and other beliefs and practices that will seem bizarre to normal people. Americans will learn about it all now, and when they do, all the work by church leaders over the past 50 years to mainstream Mormonism will be flushed away.

But the choice was made, and there is no turning back. The persecuted have become the persecutors. Check your history books to see how that usually turns out.

Comparing gay marriage to drunk driving is ugly and offensive, but mainly it’s illogical. My marriage has harmed no one. Quite the opposite in fact: It made our mothers, the rest of our families and our friends and their kids very happy that we could enjoy this right after 29 years together.

Finally, Max, only two groups of people are obsessed with gay issues. Gay people and closeted gay people. People who are comfortable and secure about their own sexuality are not threatened by the sexuality of others.

But your argument here just won’t fly. Tens of millions American straight couples don’t have children, and yet their marriages give them happiness and comfort. By your rationale, the government should rescind their marriage licenses because they’re childless.

It is un-American to have one set of laws for straight people and another for gays. Nothing you can say can change that fact.