The disparagements of traditional marriage are the small end of the wedge for prying religious freedom from our Constitution. If applied, the Bill of Rights would furnish the key for resolving the marriage issue by sustaining its religious essence.
For tens of millions of Jewish, Christian and Muslim believers classical scholarship concludes homosexual relationships separate them from God. The Old Testament, holy to “People of the Book”, speaks of the character, identity, and purpose of God in a manner, which continuously addresses homosexuality. God is identified as masculine and all humans as feminine in relation to Him. After creating all things, He created the single institution of heterosexual marriage to point to the love relationship He desires with humanity. For them any subsequent reasoning from scriptures must derive from that basic understanding.
Focusing on first principles regarding marriage renders irrelevant contrary moral exhibitionist arguments of fairness and tolerance, and the pecuniary arguments regarding taxes and social welfare. For the United States, all could be managed by the elegant expressions, and endless tomes legislators luxuriate in creating on issues from plastic bags to healthcare. People could then be free to do whatever in relation to business practice, and personal belief, but there seems to be little chance of that happening.
Allowing a popular civil trend to erase foundational Constitutional principle injects a crippling abscess into spiritual faith. Immediately these people reside outside boundaries guaranteeing freedom of religion to become guilty of cultural prejudice, and next confront logics defining their beliefs as criminal.
Same sex marriage tears the spinal cord out of the desert religions. What remains is a gooey substitute for spiritual faith which can be layered onto any secular philosophy. People will either buy into this new normal or be unable to benefit from this redefinition of the First Amendment.
But of course. The gays are at bottom, pagans who reject the biblical God and also the values that go with it. Without the First Commandment, the others fall of their own weight. The only thing that keeps a man from stealing or whatever is fear of the Law. But the law can be “handled”