Why do you people continue to repeat this? It is offensive to me when you try to compare "gay marriage" to civil rights. That one point causes me to just want to tune out everything else you have to say. It's a flat out distortion of the truth, and it has been debated over and over again, but you still insist on making this irrelevant and baseless point. No one is being denied any goddamn right! A gay person has exactly the SAME right as a straight person regarding the institution of marriage. There is NO difference! A gay person can not marry someone of the same gender, but neither can a straight person! To continue insisting that someone is being denied a right that others enjoy, is just plain old dishonest! When you keep being deliberately dishonest, it tends to alienate people who might otherwise sympathize with you.
We simply CAN'T establish by law, a government licensing of marriage based on a sexual behavior! To do this, would undermine the entire integrity of marriage, and set a landmark precedent for any other group of sexual deviants to demand equal protection under the law! I don't care what Sweden does, they don't have a Constitution which guarantees equal protection under the law, so what they do is irrelevant. By the very principles of our Constitution, should we establish marriage based on sexuality, we MUST grant the same exact considerations for ANY sexuality, regardless of whether we are personally comfortable with it or not. You think I am saying this to sound alarming and paranoid, but it's the absolute truth. Our Constitution prohibits us from ever passing a law to make marriage be defined by sexual behavior, and if we ever did it, no exception could ever be made again regarding sexuality... if someone wanted to marry their goat, our Constitution would guarantee them that right because of the "equal protection" articulated in the 14th Amendment.
Aside from this purely constitutional reason we can't do it, Americans don't want to do it! Time and time again, America has rejected same-sex marriage, coast to coast, in some of the most liberal environments in America... NO ONE WANTS IT! Arguments range from the legal ones, as I presented, to more traditional conservative views, pertaining to unity of the family. For whatever reason, the VAST majority of America does not want this.... yet you press on!
It seems to me, you either don't believe in democracy and the will of the people, or you simply want to supersede it for your own personal agenda, and force your views on the rest of society against their will. Which one is it?
