And you are suggesting our starting place has nothing to do with freedom. Poor place to start, IMO.
No. I am suggesting that as a nation we have grown unused to thinking. We are kind of feel our way around and jump at the first reasonable sounding justification for our views instead of thinking through where that will would take us. The argument against gay marriage is what society will get out of the arrangement. We’ve made everything about touchy feelyness and have let Political Correctness grow like a cancer.