Sooner or later people are going to have to realize that we all live in this nation together and if we expect to be left alone to live our lives as we wish, we're going to have to leave other folks along to live their lives as they wish.
Good on ya kev. That is pretty much the way to live. I have no problem with folks who don't eat meat, don't like guns, or do what they want as consenting adults in the privacy of their homes. And I have no desire to force them - either legally, or spiritually - to subscribe to my choices about how I live my life.
If they would only reciprocate, I'd be a happy man.
Some of our members here don't seem to understand what "living together" or "leaving alone" mean.
So the "gays" form clubs etc...because they are "born that way"..
Next thing we know, pyromaniacs, kleptomaniacs, animal abusers, shop lifters, extortioner, burglars, and left-handed monkey-jumpers form clubs...
Do you suppose they can all get special rights if they claim to be "born that way"?
You may not have noticed but all the 'maniacs' you listed, and the shop lifters, burglars, directly harm other people by their activities. Gays don't - unless they are "gay"
and pyro, klepto, abuser, etc. in which case they fall under the same laws as heterosexual criminals.
And just what the bleep are "left-handed monkey jumpers" anyway? Are you as levophobic
-fear of the left-hand- as you are homophobic?
And I don't recall there being anything in the Constitution preventing "clubs" - in fact I thought it was covered by the First Amendment under this:
... the right of the people peaceably to assemble...You might consider that it is dangerously inconsistent to support anything that would penalize, ban, harass, or legislate against activities that in no way directly affect you. The danger with supporting legislation against things
you don't like, or consider immoral, is that sets the horrible precedent that when (and it
will happen) people of different beliefs get into power they will gleefully and with righteousness, legislate against your ability to live
your life as you wish. They will declare that what you do, or who you are, immoral and insist it is their duty to prevent you from acting that way and offending others.
And by the way, if it even matters to you, there is nothing "special" about the "right" to marry - pretty much all have it, don't you? Anyway, my position is that there is no constitutional basis for government messing with marriage. There are some legal and economic reasons that governments got involved, but that is all. Marriage originally was between the individuals and their God, and as far as I am concerned governments should butt out (no pun intended)
If God has a problem with who is marrying who, it is up to God to deal with it. Not you, me, or the state! If God's preferences are clearly stated, and certain people disregard them, by what right do you or anybody have to take over from God. A bit arrogant if you ask me.
I don't believe the gay people are asking for any special rights. I really just think they would like the same rights as straight people.
Right on Dale! Much more simply stated than my current pontification here.