Nothing is stopping from gays who are committed to their relationships to establish their own “family”.
Want your “spouse” to inherit your wealth? What law is stopping them now?
Want to adopt children or have children by surrogate? What law is stopping them now?
Want benefits for your spouse? Apple, IBM. Microsoft, Amazon, Disney, etc, all provide same sex benefits already.
But all of these are not enough, they want ACCEPTANCE.
And herein lies the problem -— It is a clash of moralities.
They want to use the power of the law ( i.e. COERCION ) to FORCE devout and religious people ( i.e., citizens who have deeply held moralities and beliefs ) to RECOGNIZE their relationship and ACCEPT IT ( contrary to their beliefs ).
say you are a religious institution (a Catholic or Evangelical hospital or a small business like Hobby Lobby or Chick Fil-A), will you be required BY LAW ( and by required, I mean FORCED under threat of jail of fine ) to provide same sex benefits against your deeply held religious beliefs?
If so, then gays are FORCING THEIR MORALITY on others.
If there were no coercion on others to accept their beliefs, they can marry all they want, just don’t expect religious people to accept this. You go your way, we go ours.
But that is not what they want. Hence, the cultural battle lines have to be drawn.
We have no choice, we are being forced to fight this battle.
Acceptance is not the end...
Supremacy. That’s the goal.