"In regards to gay marriage, I don’t care if people I don’t know do something I don’t care about." Here's the problem, Regal: You may believe in "Live and Let Live," but the LGBT activists won't LET you live and let live. They'll come after you.
Don't you realize that if a marriage predicated on sodomy is legal, it cements in homosexuals a "protected class"? (It has already happened.)
Don't you realize that if homosexuals are a "protected class," it is ILLEGAL to do or say anything that might offend or exclude them -- that is, anything that is less than celebratory of their sexual proclivities?
ILLEGAL to sell goods or services related to weddings, carry on any kind of matrimonial ministry, do counseling related to marriage, educate kids about sex and decency, unless you positively portray and promote sodomy and lesbianism as the equivalent of true marriage?
- Dating services FORCED to cater to gay preferences (already happened)
- Christian wedding reception venues FORCED to cater to homosexual celebrations (already happened.)
- Licensed marriage counselors, family therapists, even religious chaplaincies FORCED to affirm man/man and woman/woman sexual liaisons (already happened).
- Church-launched Marriage Enrichment programs FORCED to celebrate sexual perversion (already happened).
- Fifth graders FORCED to be groomed on the "best" way to do oral sex --with a dental dam --- and the "best" way to do anal penetration ---with a lube and condom (already happened).
- Early childhood educators (teaches from Pre-K to middle school) FORCED to train kids to regard homosexual liaisons as just as great as a family with a mom and dad. (Even in Mama-Bear-and-Papa-Bear stories, now it's Two Papa Bears. "Heather Has Two Mommies." "My Princes Boy." "Gloria Goes to Gay Pride". Already happened.)
- The legal system FORCED to treat little children (e.g. in marriage and family law, custody, foster placement, etc) as if they have no need for, no right to, and no legitimate interest in having a father and a mother. (Already happened.)
- Christian adoption and foster care services FORCED to provide lesbians and gay males with access to little children, or lose their licenses and be shut down by law. (in MA, IL and CA, already happened.)
- Even in the midst of an epidemic causing tens of millions of deaths, vectored by anal penetration, it is ILLEGAL for health care professionals to advocate --- let alone campaign for --- abstinence from anal penetration. (Already happened, Sweet Jesus, 45 years ago, and still ongoing.)
Force, force, force, force, force. This is the free society you want?
You wanted it, you got it. Good and hard.
“Don’t you realize that if a marriage predicated on sodomy is legal, it cements in homosexuals a “protected class”?”
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Just not true.
Are heterosexual marriages predicated on the use and manipulation of penises and vaginas? (Heterosexuals also perform sodomy, by the way.) Would you consider homosexual marriage ok, if they were forbidden to have intercourse?
This is getting way out of control. We should not be basing policy on genitals and sexual positions. Everything about your argument is based on hyperbole and fear.
“Don’t you realize that if homosexuals are a “protected class,” it is ILLEGAL to do or say anything that might offend or exclude them — that is, anything that is less than celebratory of their sexual proclivities?”
I have studied protected classes in law school, and this is just not true. They are getting you riled up over nothing and that is exactly what they hope to do. Don’t let them!!!!