[alex2011]

Yes name calling is the best defense and very mature!
Why should government encourage any type of behavior. Should government encourage for people to buy health insurance,or send their kids to public schools,or buy houses on credit?! I agree that marriage is Godly that’s why its up to Rabbis and priests to marry people. Understand, any time you think the government should encourage /discourage or force some type of behavioral. This power can be used by the Libs to force behavior which you find distasteful to yourself. Fundamentally, Government should stay out of persons affairs UNLESS it significantly effects other people. As of today marriage is just a formality, why is it so hard to understand. Take an atheist do they care to get married, NO! What changes to them if they married,or not- NOTHING. The only people who care about marriage are religious, thus its between them and G-D. If you bring Government into the Holy union they will turn it unholy,as they usually do.

[DJ MacWoW]

Why should government encourage any type of behavior.

Maybe a few quotes will explain WHY.

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. James Madison

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. - George Washington

America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within. - Joseph Stalin

[wagglebee]

Why should government encourage any type of behavior.

Typical libertarian/leftist/anarchist CRAP!

The PURPOSE of government is to protect our God-given rights, one way this is done is by encouraging some behavior and discouraging other behavior. By YOUR convoluted system, governments wouldn't even encourage people not to rape and murder.

I agree that marriage is Godly that’s why its up to Rabbis and priests to marry people.

And there are plenty of leftist ministers who are all too happy to marry sodomites and that is EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE PUSHING.

Government should stay out of persons affairs UNLESS it significantly effects other people. As of today marriage is just a formality, why is it so hard to understand.

The militant homosexual agenda DOES affect all of us, it IS NOT a "formality" no matter how much you wish it to be so.

[wagglebee]

Well troll, it looks like you've been zotted.

[xzins]

Why should government encourage any type of behavior.

That has to be a sentence that you really don't believe and that you want to have a chance to explain. Otherwise, it's just irrelevant in the entire world of thinking people. As a stand alone sentence, it doesn't have a leg to stand on.