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"Now we can do away with them and join anyone at all in Holy Matrimony"

The gay community is not attempting to make the Religious institutions
comply, they are attempting to garner the same legal rights of being
married that are afforded to all others that the Government provides
through it's licensing of marriage.

This is an issue of Government licensing of the union of two people
that consequently affords certain rights and benefits to those two people
and the family of those two people.

Well, I think we've found the spokesman for the homosexual community, haven't we?

The gay community is not attempting to make the Religious institutions comply, they are attempting to garner the same legal rights of being married that are afforded to all others that the Government provides through it's licensing of marriage.

Hogwash. They're attacking the institution of marriage on all fronts. I don't know of a single denomination that doesn't have a "gay lobby" clamoring for the religion to bless, accept, and perform gay marriages. Some have caved in. It's tearing other denominations (witness the Episcopalians) apart.

This is an issue of Government licensing of the union of two people that consequently affords certain rights and benefits to those two people and the family of those two people.

Which came first, marriage, or the state license of it? Marriage is an age old institution that only the most arrogant social engineers would attempt to redefine on the basis of getting at the goodies (aka "benefits") inside. The law of unintended consequences will apply painfully here. (And they're not unintended by everyone - there are some very influential "gay marriage" advocates who have openly stated that they want to use the "gay marriage" issue to abolish the institution of marriage altogether.)

There is nothing remotely conservative about advocating gay marriage. Those who try to rationalize the issue to cast it as a positive conservative good are putting lipstick on a pig.

What "gay community"? I know conservative homosexuals who do NOT agree with the "radical gay agenda"; they know how to handle their private affairs without the help of the government.

"The gay community is not attempting to make the Religious institutions comply,..."

Where have you been? Of course the homosexuals have been trying to redefine EVERTHING to reflect honor to their desires and beliefs. Did you completely miss the Episcopalean attack? Those who practice homosexuality are not just looking for social justice, they seek to redefine every aspect of our culture to justify their sinful choice.