I don't like the "gay marriage" statute either, but this thread has nothing to do with it.
As to not being your friends, ask the soldiers who have been rotating into the Afghanistan since 2002 and the seamen who have been rotating into the Gulf on frigates acting as part of escort screens for US CVs and on interdiction patrols as part of the War on Terror.
Friends may disagree and brothers may fight.
Ask also the many conservative Canadians who participate in this thread.