Gays want “marriage” for one reason - Federal benefits. If benefits weren’t involved, they would care a bit...
A commonly stated viewpoint, but I disagree. Sure, the benefits are part of it — but the war against traditional marriage is a war against Christianity. They are not so much trying to get something (benefits) as trying to destroy something (Christian morality).
Bob, I completely disagree. This issue is not about benefits or money-—it is about acceptance-—FORCING normal Americans to accept deviant and perverted behavior. They don’t want tolerance, they want your BLESING.
As I've been trying to tell people for awhile now, if you truly value something, you don't want government involved in it in any way. Married people were more than happy to let Big Brother do them a solid with all kinds of other peoples' money and now they have the gall be shocked and outraged when they don't like the strings Big Brother wants to attach to it.
Lesson: You need to be careful whom you let do favors for you. You guys are probably going to have to learn that the hard way this time. Married people were quite happy to dance with the devil for all those benefits. But when you dance with the devil, you aren't going to change him...he's going to change you.
The bigger reason Gays want "marriage" is AFFIRMATION.
They know deep down what they are doing is morally wrong. However, if society passes a law affirming anything Gay, then their guilt might somehow be eased.
Sure. Except the only way that happens is to make someone else feel guilty...and that would be Christians.
Real, true followers of Christ will never affirm homosexuality.
True for the rank and file that propel the movement, but there’s a whole nother agenda behind the Leadership, the Architects of this movement and that is to destroy the Christian Church communities if at all possible. Its an anti-God movement; they want to marginalize the “Christian” community to the point that they are entirely eliminated from the “public square” to such an extent that to be branded a “Christian” would mean someone would be precluded from running for public office.
My analysis of the situation indicates that they’re well over 50% of the way to achieving their first goal, i.e. forcing legal recognition of same-sex marriage. Following that victory, they’ll use the education system to indoctrinate children with the idea that its normal and correct to investigate their sexuality with members of the same sex and at the middle and high school levels, those who aren’t practicing “bi-sexual” relationships will be automatically deemed “homophobic” which they’ll write up as a mental disease and giving rise to possible hate crimes.
Another “next” step will be to attempt to deny tax exempt status to Christian Churches that refuse to perform same-sex marriages. The only salvation for the churches ultimate existence will be that they’ll have to write in some exemption for the Mosques and Synagogues and I think that will come about by way of exempting all religious communities that perform sacremental rites only with, for and by “members” much like Obama’s exemption from Obamacare for the Amish. This would of course require “registration” of church members. We know where that ultimately ends.