I support gay unions (I do not think they should be called marriage, but another term). I am fine with transgendered people (leave kids alone). I do not believe anyone should physically harm such people.
I do not have a problem with the Log Cabin Republicans either.
But to celebrate this legislation that will destroy marriage once and for all is despicable. Anyone who celebrates this has lost my support.
Yours is a very common opinion. It’s not conservatism so much as libertarian. It’s, “I don’t care what other people do so long as they leave the children alone.” With all respect, it’s extremely naive. Do you think the world around you can descend into moral depravity without it inevitably seeping down to the children?
Consider divorce. Trump is divorced several times. Many of my friends are divorced. It happens, but it is not a good thing. It is one thing to regretfully support the right of couples to divorce. It is something entirely different—not good or wise—to speak of divorce like it’s a good thing.
So you may not have a problem with divorce. You may even be a faithful, long married spouse, but rampant divorce affects the civil society. Children that are the product of divorces, raised by single moms for example, have worse outcomes by nearly every measure. Unmarried (divorced) women line up in droves to vote for Democrats, making Uncle Sam their husband.
So yes, leaders shouldn’t be neutral on such moral issues.