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Marriage is about children. Perpetuating society.

As long as within those confines there are rights that can't be denied. Like you can't order a person to be sterilized without a really big scandal. There were cases where mentally disabled were force sterilized but that did not get far. Rights advocates went ballistic when a judge ordered a woman to have longterm birth control implant as a condition of her release.

Homosexuals are trying to equate the personal private individual right to private sex with a public participation in an institution.

[America second to none]

Here's the prediction: The gay marriage forces will win. The religious leaders in this country, save the heavy lifting crew of Dobson, Falwell, and Robertson, is as usual silent, and I'm not in their( D,F&R's) theological camp. At least they aren't running for cover.

The spirit of the age in America is pagan. The church is, as usual, silent. If this issue doesn't get the church leaders speaking out, nothing will. I'm not holding my breath. Truth will win in the end though. Shame on Christian America if it remains indifferent. We deserve better leadership. We should demand no less.

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Marriage is about children. Perpetuating society.

No, not really. Civli marriage serves many purposes. Civil marriage is about creating a contract. A contract creating an economic unit with rights and obiligations. Children make up only an insignificant part of the marriage laws. It does make up an important part of sectarian (church) marriage but not the state laws regarding marriage. Check the marriage laws and stop speaking from ignorance.