[smalltownguy]

Maybe you should consider that many are unhappy due to the efforts of people like you in your character assassination as well as attempts to deny their pursuit of happiness as far as a "lifestyle" is concerned.

A "free" country should theoretically account for various types of relationships found throughout the world's cultures and religions. The fact that the majority of American citizens follow a specific religion should not have legal bearing on those citizens who believe something else. When a majority rule passes legislation reflecting religious opinion, it's not exactly a free country anymore.

Just think, in a hundred years what might happen should a large influx of Muslim immigrants become the majority and start forcing their religious beliefs down your throat!

The bill of rights along with the separation of church and state was designed to prevent these clashes and allow everyone their own space to live their own lives as they pleased, more or less.

Seems to me that much of the conservative/liberal struggle these days is between those who wish to force their religious beliefs onto the entire population through legislation -vs- those who still believe in the original intent of the writers of the constitution and the bill of rights.

Just because one person wants to live a certain way does not mean you are compelled to follow. This is supposed to be a free country. Is it?

[weegee]

A "free" country should theoretically account for various types of relationships found throughout the world's cultures and religions.

Can you point to one historic civilization that embraced same sex marriage? Saying that the Dutch accept this now (or the Canadians) does not prove the point of "the world's cultures and religions". How long does something need to be an accepted practice to meet that criteria? One generation (25 years)?