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Gays are only about 2% of the population, and nothing should be done to damage the institution of marriage, which is intended to benefit future generations (e.g. children) because of such a small pressure group that is, additionally, particularly weak in the area of descendents. Any talk of marriage being a 'civil rights' issue should be dismissed out of hand.

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Oops. I should have used i.e. instead of e.g..

[AmericanInTokyo]

Look. It basically goes this way.

The koran-based radical terrorists in the middle east in large part have disdain for America because they read in their Arabic press reports such as these, or see photos of American homosexuals or lesbians on religious altars getting 'married'.

Their disdain carries through to attacks on American interests, since (in their minds) we are 'decadent' and deserving of annihilation as unclean animals, and while this is not any kind of apologetic reasoning for that behavior, it DOES explain what they think about us and we can be damned sure the MORE we do decline as a society and appear corrupt to a large segment of the world, the more we can expect disdain and terrorist attacks. I draw a DIRECT correlation.