How is gay marriage "forced" on the people?
Is traditional marriage "forced" on people who shack up? Honestly, I see no reason why WHO you marry is anybody's business.
The fact of the matter is that the American people, by an overwhelming margin, wish to retain the traditional definition of marriage. When unelected tyrants in black robes insist that marriage be instead defined in ways it has never in all of human history been, and which offends almost every single American citizen, THAT is how gay "marriage" is forced on the people.
Any questions?
If two people of the same sex want to live together and define their existence by the fact that their reproductive equipment is a pleasure toy for them and nothing else, that is nobody's business but their own.
But to elevate that relationship the the importance of one that is vital to the well being and health of our society, is wrong and dangerous.
If you think a family with a mother and a father is not important to bringing up children correctly, that is your right to think so, but you are mistaken, the science is not on your side.
Our society has given special rights and privileges for the institution of marriage and the act of rearing children, in recognition that is is the single most important thing to carry on our line.
These rights are paid for all of us by our taxes and legal strucured. We willigly pay, the same way we would pay for our childeren to go to the best school.
Those of us who do not have children, for various reasons....we willingly pay the penalties with no children, because thousands of years have shown us the right and normal way. Two mommies and two daddies may produce an occasoniall wonderful off spring, but it isnt the norm.
The United States Supreme Court disagrees:
"Laws are made for the government of actions, and while they cannot interfere with mere religious belief and opinions, they may with practices..."[Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145, 8 Otto 145, 24 L. Ed. 244 (1878).]
See also: Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States, 136 U.S. 1, 10 S.Ct. 792, 34 L. Ed. 478 (1890). Revised as 140 U.S. 665, 11 S.Ct. 884, 35 L. Ed. 592 (1891).
Marriage is a public act... regulated by statutory license.
Marriage is a religious "rite," not a civil "right;" with a secular standard of human reproductive biology.
Driving, marriage, legal and medical practices are not enumerated rights; they are privileged practices that require statutory license.
Nothing that requires a license is a right.