“Gay people can not marry the person they are attracted to and want to marry. I do not see how that is fair.”
Marriage was established by most civilizations as a way to ensure the establishment of families so that a mother and father would raise the next generation of citizens and ensure the survival of the civilization. A mother AND a father raising a child is the optimum environment for children.
Your argument for homosexual marriage is poor. Is it fair to children for the State to establish homosexual marriage, thereby ENSURING that children will either be denied a mother or a father? Is it fair to base law on who a person is attracted to? What if it is your adult sister/brother/mother/father you are attracted to. Should the State endorse those marriages?
Marriage is endorsed by the State so as to provide a mother and father to raise future generations. Any other definition of marriage besides being between one man and one woman is unfair for children.
I understand your point and I appreciate your approach to posing your view. I believe that none of us are born gay. I believe that gays make a choice to be gay. Whether it’s just feeling more comfortable with the same sex, not having good experiences with the opposite sex, what ever the case may be. It’s a choice. I have met some women who have told me that it’s so much easier being with a woman than being with a man. They said that they never thought of women, but after having bad experiences with men, they CHOSE to go to women. I had a friend growing up who told me that he was gay because he felt more comfortable with men. The gays that I have met, not one has said I born this way. Maybe they think they were, but they never said that.