How does this interfere with your freedoms?
End of the right of anonymous travel.
Requirement to interface with government whether you want to or not (income tax returns, for instance).
Over zealous building codes destroy right to do as you please with your property.
I'm paying for it through my tax dollars and I don't believe it meets the constitutional test of the 'common good.' Its like playing poker against your own money.
When Clinton altered military policies concerning sexual preferences he opened up a can of worms. When soldiers go into the "field" they are provided 1 shelter half. Two soldiers join the "halves" together to make a tent. That tent is shared for sleeping . I think that certain Troops might takes exception to such sleeping conditions. Amplify that sentiment in a barracks or a ship or in other situations requiring close living quarters.
The bottom line is that it could be bad for morale. That could effect individual performance. The Military could lose a battle because of disgruntled Troops compelled to endorse a lifestyle which personally offends them. Losing a battle could result in losing a war. Losing a war might interfere with our freedoms!
Simplistic for sure, but there are reasons that the military has policies, and society has mores.
Because our government is based on moral laws. When our government promotes immorality (and not just homosexuality), the nation suffers. Most immoral activities are hurtful to families.
How about messing with the minds of our children by advocating and encouraging the tolerance and experimentation of homosexual life styles in government schools, which is abhorent to the tax paying parents of those children?
Creates soscila pathologies that inspire calls for more government programs
I don't have the freedom to discriminate against homosexuals even though I have every moral and health reason to do so.
Government advocacy of socially deviant lifestyles
To which Kleon asked:
How does this interfere with your freedoms?
It interferes because
(1) government shouldn't promote any "lifestyle",
(2) government will push degenerate behavior onto our children, and I want them OUT of that forum, and
(3) a society that can't value the family will lose the strength the family unit bestows on the society of which it is a necessary part.
Clear?
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798As we depart from these principles, our freedom is eroded and the very principles that this republic and its liberties was founded upon are destroyed.
That's how.
The flaw is that government defined marriage in the first place. People were getting married for millenia before Congress came along and started punishing and rewarding based on marital status. But what the government can define, the government can re-define at whim.
The way to eliminate government promotion of gay marriage is to eliminate government promotion of any marriage, and let the institution stand on it's own. Somehow, I think marriage would do better without the government "help".