I hate to repost what I just said, but you made a great point. Why do they insist on this? Because it isn’t about civil rights. It isn’t about being discriminated against. It is about trying to force the rest of the world to think and feel the exact way they do. This is a sort of immoral inquistition, isn’t it?
I say again:
Homosexual marriage is not about the freedom for some to live as they want—because they are now free to do that-—but it is about forcing an ideology on people who do not want it.
Is is about the government forcing people to live AGAINST their consciences!
It is a matter of taking away the rights of the majority of people, to secure a privilege for a small minority of people, who can secure that their partnership by other means.
It is a matter of destroying the right of religions——not just Christianity by the way-—to teach morality in the way they see fit-—the right of freedom of speech, for people to speak out on issues they hold dear to their hearts-—and Parental rights-—the right to raise your children to share your own morals and values.
It is a matter of taking away the freedom of Americans to think, feel and define their own morality, and define their own communities, their own government; ON the grounds that the GOVERNMENT will now define the doctrines and precepts of religious organizations.
Homosexual marriage gives the government the right to intrude their powers in the area of anciently held and practiced religious doctrines—and to restrain these doctrines, destroys all religious liberty!
And their philosophy fits well with the liberal victim-entitlement liberal mentality, that people are repressed and victimized by a malevolent moral authority who will not yield to their demands for handouts (as free care for AIDS “victims”) or sanctioned immoral lifestyle they feel they are entitled to.
Likewise they rely upon psychological tactics such as insinuating opponents are either driven by a neurological fear of homosexuals or of being one, just as not voting for Obama must mean you are racist.
I am not driven by fear of either, but by esteem for God’s holiness, and whose laws to our benefit, and breaking them is to our individual and collective hurt. A half a million Americana dead from AIDS alone is testimony to that, along with many other Costs of the War Against God. http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html.