[xzins]

According to many, this is the basic question we must answer in a compelling manner:

How does Mary Bishop and Sharon Baldwin being married hurt me and my marriage?

My one line answer is: Gay marriage makes my culture more dangerous.

Is there a better answer than that?

Of course, we could reject the above question as the basic question.

Tony Perkins, of the Family Research Council, doesn’t seem to accept that as the basic question. He said, “(this judge) is substituting his own ideology for the three-quarters of Oklahomans who voted to preserve marriage in their constitution as it has always been defined.”

He sees it as perhaps: “Why should one ideology rule over another?” (That could be framed better.)

While I think he is right, that approach hasn’t gotten any traction over the last decade or so. But, it that reason to give up on that approach.

[P-Marlowe]

They may be able to get married but they will never enter the bounds of Holy Matrimony.

They are married to their sin.

[C. Edmund Wright]

I think the best answer is this…..because this is also the correct libertarian position (tho many libertarians don’t accept it.)

Marriage is a contract, and it meant certain things as hundreds of millions of people entered into that contract. There is no way all of those millions of contracts should be changed post facto by a perversion of the very definition of those contracts.

[scripter]

It's a complex situation where I don't think a one line answer is sufficient. I usually reference the following:

• the lack of science behind the born that way theory
• Michael Glatz who ran the gay magazine Young Gay America and walked away from the lifestyle and is now married to a woman
• Charlene Cothran who runs Venus magazine. The magazine used to be for lesbians but after Charlene left the lesbian lifestyle she now uses Venus magazine to tell others there's hope to leave the lifestyle
• that many have entered a homosexual relationship after a heterosexual relation
• that many have entered a heterosexual relationship after a homosexual relationship
• sexuality is fluid
• health hazards of the homosexual lifestyle from the CDC
• studies offering evidence kids do best in a heterosexual relationship
• studies offering evidence kids with homosexual parents are more prone to be homosexual, experiment with drugs and get in trouble with the law
• Chirlane McCray, the soon-to-be First Lady of New York City and wife of the Democratic soon-to-be mayor of New York City says that homosexuality is a choice. She should know. She chose it. Then she unchose it.

And more.

I think it's important to note the same-sex attraction isn't a choice most make, although there are some who admit to choosing the lifestyle. If it's not a choice and there's no evidence homosexuals are born that way, it's easy to see where people get confused. It's a complex subject.

[wmfights]

My one line answer is: Gay marriage makes my culture more dangerous.

My answer to my sons and their college aged friends is we are either a Godly people, or we are just like every other animal on the planet. You can't have it both ways.

As I see it homosexual marriage is a dangerous threat because it is ungodly and helps to establish a "you can do anything you want" mentality.

Unfortunately, what I'm seeing is the demise of western civilization and a shrinking of Christian numbers among the industrialized economies.

[Republican Wildcat]

According to many, this is the basic question we must answer in a compelling manner: How does Mary Bishop and Sharon Baldwin being married hurt me and my marriage?

No, it isn't - they must answer how two women can be joined as husband and wife.