Gays do have rights but NOT to same sex marriage!
That's what a lot of people said about the early Mormons who practiced polygamy in accordance with their beliefs. In fact the federal government sent in troops to enforce other people's ideas about how Mormons ought to live. It would be nice to think that we'd moved beyond such self-righteous pig-headedness.
FWIW though, I think the government should get completely out of the marriage business, rather than expand its meddlesome regulation to include gay marriage. People's personal and/or religious activities are none of the government's business.
Why should that be?
Wal-Mart can fund as many homsexual parades and such as they want, and I wouldn't care, but when they put their money behind politically opposing a petition on the November ballot that thousands of Christian Idahoans worked to place there, THAT pisses me off.
They have no business interfering with elections to placate homosexuals.
Ed
NORMAL people don't have the right to same sex marriage either.
Two heterosexual men or two heterosexual women can't enter a same sex "marriage".