[Glock22]

Sorry, MineralMan, you've got it backward.

These people are in the business of taking away our rights. They are doing this by forcing a redefinition of marriage. They are doing this by requiring us to live a lie, that is, that marriage is something other than a man and a woman. And if they succeed, our right to our religious beleifs will be gone, since we will have to treat two "married" men like any other couple.

This is about the destruction of our rights. It is not about people being left alone to mind their own business. It's about rubbing our noses in it.

That there are sick marriages, and bad heterosexual parents, is nothing to the point. That is a cheap dodge.

And how, pray tell, is it OK to abridge my right to smoke, or to eat fast food? The claim is that it imposes a burden on the rest of us. I don't think that's legit, but if it is, then where does anyone get off imposing the costs of homosexual marriage (spouse benefits, etc) on the rest of us? You can't have it both ways....unless you're a leftist, I guess.

[StarCMC]

You know, you're right and I think that's why it bothers me so much. It's a denegration of what we hold sacred -- our marriages.

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These people are in the business of taking away our rights. They are doing this by forcing a redefinition of marriage. They are doing this by requiring us to live a lie, that is, that marriage is something other than a man and a woman. And if they succeed, our right to our religious beleifs will be gone, since we will have to treat two "married" men like any other couple.

Too bad we started down that slippery slope by having Government extend privleges due to marital status.

Perhaps it's time to separate the religious portion from the secular portion of marriage, and let the government allow an arbitrary set of rules to define a couple.

Then let the churches do whatever they want wrt the sacred portion of marriage.