To try to get this back a little more civil, what do you think about this proposal by a pretty rational libertarian friend?
Instead of redefining marriage or getting it out of the legal realm, how about simply making it illegal for the government to ask for or track anyone’s gender or orientation? Then, instead of it being a marriage issue, it is a privacy issue. The contract is blind to gender just like it is blind to race?
Why should we compromise? Hell, we know that in the end Repugs will cave in and endorse queer marriages anyway.
But in the meantime, asking SoCons to hold their nose on an issue once again is ridiculous.
I do not approve of the Gay lifestyle. Period. Were I to run my own business, I would make this stance clear and allow prospective employees/business that did not approve of my stance to go elsewhere.
Nor would I attend religious ceremonies where the Gay lifestyle was hypocritically given a pass or openly celebrated.
This has less to do with any perceived “homophobia” and more to do with my religious views and the fact that Leftist Socialism seems to be using the Gay Pride types to target our Republic and it’s Constitution. Go be Gay... Just don’t do it around me or use it as a bludgeon through government to get me to accept your choice.
None of the above require government interaction at all. In fact, trying to find ways around the above is how the Gay Lobby has gained as much power as it has.
If you want to reduce marriage to a simple civil union contract, you can do that already without having to redefine a majority of the worlds religions definition of the term “marriage”.