Here is the letter I sent on the subject.
Equal protection under the law now excludes tens of millions of Jewish, Christian and Muslim believers, who consider classical scholarship finds homosexual relationships separate people from God. The Old Testament, holy to “People of the Book”, speaks of the character, identity, and purpose of God in a manner, which continuously addresses homosexuality. God is identified as masculine and all humans as feminine in relation to Him. After creating all things, He created the single institution of heterosexual marriage to point to the love relationship He desires with humanity. For them any subsequent reasoning from scriptures must derive from that basic understanding.
Focusing on first principles regarding marriage renders irrelevant contrary arguments of fairness and tolerance, and pecuniary arguments regarding taxes and social welfare. The Fourteenth Amendment was not the primary concern, because Constitutionality could have been maintained through the elegant expressions, and endless tomes legislators luxuriate in creating on issues from plastic bags to healthcare.
A popular civil trend now erases foundational Constitutional principle and injects a crippling abscess into spiritual faith. These believers reside outside boundaries guaranteeing religious freedom to become guilty of cultural prejudice, and next to confront logics defining their beliefs as criminal.
Same sex marriage tears the spinal cord out of the desert religions. What remains is a gooey substitute for spiritual faith which can be layered onto any secular philosophy. People will either buy into this new normal or be unable to benefit from this redefinition of the First Amendment.
Well said.