Really, dude? Your dismay over the victory of the gay lobby in the marriage equality bill is what made you get drunk and pilot a boat so distractedly that you fractured the skull of a five year old girl? That's your excuse and you're sticking to it. Oh, well then, consider this unpleasantness forgiven. After all, surely any ordinary person (whatever his sexual orientation or opinions thereon) whose carelessness under the influence caused a fracture in a child's skull would be treated quite leniently by our court system. Right?