Right. Homos are just a Tempest in a tea pot. Right?
Homosexual behavior results in severe health hazards that can affect all of us.
Homosexuals, being around 2% (including bisexuals) of the population, account for a third of child molestations. Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
There is absolutely no evidence homosexuality is genetic.
Homosexuals can change their behavior. That's just one of many links. You can find more of the same here and here.
Homosexuals must be accepted as the human beings that they are. It's their behavior that we must not accept.
You are mistaken. The purpose of government is to promote the common good, or "the general welfare" as stated in the preamble to the Constitution. Society depends for its existence on the existence and welfare of the family, so the state has an interest in the welfare of the family.
The conservatives did not want to create new laws, just keep existing ones. Laws against buggery have been around for as long as the republic has.
I thought that one of the basis of conservatism was to remove big goverment from our private lives?!
No, because people will choose to do evil in private. The government does exist to restrain evil. Anyway, gay marriage isn't about private lives, it's about a public institution.
Meantime, the liberals are creating bigger government by asking them to prosecute "hate crimes". We had illegal homosexuality for over 200 years without creating a bedroom police. But homosexuality wasn't legal for more than 20 years before we got thought police.
Just who is trying to get government to intrude where, hmmmm?
Shalom.
Yes, but the problem is that government is ALREADY in our lives with respect to marriage. Taxes, insurance coverage, the courts and their treatment of divorce, etc. The only reason homosexuals want marriage recognized is so that they can reap some of the benefits of having a marriage that is recognized by the law. Get rid of the various legal benefits and penalties associated with marriage, then MAYBE I could understand the case for recognizing gay marriage. But you see, once you do that, the only authority on marriage is the church, most varieties of which DON'T recognize homosexual "unions" as marriage.
On the other hand, one could make the case that government has reason to support only heterosexual marriage, for the simple reason that only a man and a woman can produce children. And since the country needs children (a.k.a. future producers and tax payers), the government has an incentive to ENCOURAGE heterosexual marriage and the children that it produces. Homosexual couples cannot produce children (not yet, anyway), and therefore cannot contribute to the "greater good" by producing offspring, and hopefully raising them to be decent people and good citizens.