gay marrige is WRONG

If the argument is that Christianity is relevant, I can hardly disagree. Religion is certainly relevant to those who practice it. But we do not govern ourselves by religion and the establishment clause should protect government from the undue influence of any sect or religion. If government has to date been under the influence of religion we are worse off for it. The priests and ministers never guide their flocks out of prejudice and ignorance, but rather reflect that prejudice and ignorance. Science and Anthropology both show that homosexuality is common, and can even point to certain environmental stresses on the mother that will make homosexuality in her child much more likely. If you wish to make homosexuality less common, do not make law to reflect your prejudice, but make reality conform to your desire. Make sure you have done everything possible to make certain mothers do not suffer a lot of fear, stress, or malnutrition in the course of their pregnancies, and you will see homosexuality and certain forms of mental illness reduced. The answer of the right is always a law. They think nothing of the use of coercion. What they forget is that law needs popular support to be enforced. It is not law men and attorneys who enforce law, but the people; and you find this is easy where you are in a majority and can simply drive homosexuals out of your communities and into the cities. And because homosexuality has been treated as aberrant behavior, you do find that behavior associated with drug use and other delinquent activity. You also find homosexuality associated with genius and creativity, but this is true also of schizophrenia which like homosexuality may have a prenatal element. If you could murder every genius as the right would do to raise the general level of their intelligence they would certainly not kill every homosexual, but they would kill many. And this is true of killing homosexual as the right would certainly do if given a free hand. They would kill many a genius without killing them all. The point is that if you killed all homosexuals there would be more tomorrow. They are born that way, and most know it from a very early age. What is more, all sin involves a consciousness of wrong, and St. Paul said this in regard to the Gentiles that when aware only of their own law they were not in conflict with the law of Moses. People can only do as they see fit, and it is not for society to chose who people will love. The one true commandment given to every Christian by Christ is to love one another. And I am not confusing sexuality with love, but a little more social love and a little less of that Old Testament hatred would go a long way. In the words of Jesus, he came to fulfill the law, and in this fashion he freed us from that formal relationship with God. It is good that society encourages all people to love and find some monogamy, because the one thing true of all intimate behavior is the potential to transmit disease. Same sex marriage to the extent that it encourages a single partner relationship is a asset to public health generally. Where religion conflicts with society generally, it is the religions who should give way. Remember that the Christians were good citizens in all respect except in refusing to offer a sacrifice to the Genius of the Emperor; that is, his guiding spirit. This was a danger to the whole of society because upon that genius the welfare of the society was thought to depend. The genius of this people has decided that same sex marriage is not only acceptable, but to be encouraged as all exclusive relationships should be encouraged. It is mentally, physically, and morally healthy to have exclusive relationships, and this is true of all people. If the religious really believe that sin should be treated as crime, they should begin with themselves. Consider only the ten commandments. If a person steals, it is certain they coveted their neighbors goods, so give them a double dose of religious prosecution. If a person commits adultery it is certain they coveted their neighbors wife, so give them a double dose of rectification. You religious people do not do as you know you should, and neither do you do as you say. People do not go to church to demonstrate their goodness which they might demonstrate in manifold fashions. Rather they go to profess their goodness and hide their sin beneath a cloak of social acceptance. All church people know those beside them are rotten, and if they are honest they know they are rotten. None of us ever suffers but with an awareness of our own guilt. But still you will not treat your own sin as crime, but wish to treat others sins as crime because their motivation is foreign to you. When are you going to treat your sins as crimes which you forgive only to be forgiven, and never see yourselves rectified. My point here is simple. A civil right, an equal civil right- can most certainly be considered as a property and has, and that is why the assertion that some rights are inalienable, meaning they cannot be sold. But equality lies at the heart of democracy, and the privilege to deny equal civil rights is anathema to democracy; but behind all of this is the covetousness of equal civil rights. You do not want simply to take the right of marriage, but all fundamental freedoms of democracy; and this should not be permitted. If these homosexuals will not tell you who to love, you cannot tell them; and that is fair and just.