Good point! I was not aware of that.
I don't make specific comments about the "gay lifestyle" because I don't even need to address it. I have said many times - the issue is not "equality for straights and gays" but whether men and women are not only equal, but identical or interchangeable. THEY ARE NOT! They're a matched set! Even a hard-core atheist should be able to understand that.
I think framing the issue this way explains a lot. Not having state-sanctioned same-sex marriage is no more illegal discrimination than having separate men's and women's bathrooms in public buildings is illegal segregation, IMHO.
If the people want it, let them try to enact it through their elected representatives. THEN we can have the more substantive debate.
But I just do not see how a court would be compelled to order same-sex marriage, again unless somehow it first judicially wipes away all distinctions between men and women. It makes no sense.
Ta logical extension. Separate bathrooms MUST be discrimination by the reasoning used to support gay marriage. If I could afford to bring trivial lawsuits for the purpose of advancing a political agenda like the ACLU, I'd do it just to demonstrate this. The underlying premise is that men and women are not only equal, but identical in the eyes of government. This follows from the radical feminist agenda pushed by NOW, among other things. Same premise (which also explains the hyperventilation in support for abortion from liberals).
Of course. But being a liberal means not having to live by the rules, even if they're the laws of nature.