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Some things are right and some things are wrong. Because murder is wrong, there are laws against it. Homosexuality is either right or wrong. If we pass a law recognizing it, then the government is saying it's "right".

Homosexuals make up only 2% of the population
Anf they have:
Much shorter life expectancies
Much higher incidence of substance abuse problems
Much high incidence of domestic abuse
Much higher incidence of child sexual abuse
Much higher incidence of mental illness.

I think homosexuality is merely a form of mental illness (and it used to be categorized as such). It's not so much a question of "Why do Conservatives think it's wrong? All of the above show why it's wrong. The real question is: Why would we want our government to declare it "right"?

To tell you the truth, I don't really care one way or the other. If a state wants to legalize gay marriage, fine. If a court in a state finds the ban on gay marriage unconstitutional in that state, fine. I just don't want to see our national Constitution amended to ban gay marriage. To me there is nothing conservative about amending the Constitution. It's a big thing to go changing our Constitution, and it shouldn't be done for petty reasons such as this.

Personally, I'm not big on legislating morality on private, personal issues such as this. Legislating against murder is one thing, legislating against something like gay marriage is another entirely. I don't care if you think homosexuality is wrong. I certainly don't think it is "right" either. But the big difference between you and me is that I just don't care about little things like this. It's not for me to tell my neighbor that his love for another man is wrong. And in fact, the person who has lived across the street from me for close to fifteen years is a gay man. For the first eleven years, he had a "mate" living with him, but that fellow died of cancer. He now has a new live in buddy. I don't like to think about what they do behind closed doors, but I have no problem with them as neighbors. They've been excellent neighbors, far better than many others I've had the displeasure of living near.

People worry so much about what message government may or may not be sending with their laws. The reality is that nobody listens much to government's subtle little messages. On issues like this nobody much cares what government thinks.

Is government sending a message that gay relationships are wrong? Should they? Would everyone all of the sudden think gay relationships are perfectly moral and okay if government allowed gay marriage? I don't think so. Most would still think they are wrong. Most Christians would still look upon them as sinful unions entered into without God's blessings.

What are you so worried about? Are you afraid everyone is going to turn gay? I assure you, my revulsion to the notion of gay sex would not change if gay marriage was no longer illegal, and I doubt your's would either.

People just need to live and let live.