Oh please!!. Gay marriage is a liberal stance no matter what you are registered as. It is not, and does not belong in a conservative agenda.
The reason being conservatives are “traditional” not “dogmatic” as sometimes accused. That means retaining values based on Judeo / Anglo Christian beliefs and other similar conservative religious and social outlooks.
I come from New York and lived in the Bay Area most of my life so I have been exposed to your culture from childhood.
You may have a social contract,a civil union, or whatever else you aspire to call it in most states already. You can even get married in a civil ceremony by a gay priest, priestess, minister, ministeress, whatever.You can call your significant other “my wife”, “my husband” anything you want.
But no, that ain’t good enough, you want to destroy the sanctity of a traditional word, which in turn destroys it’s value for those who cherish such definition and religious significance.
And that is really what its all about destroying religion as others want to practice it. You believe the word should become secular rather than religious.
So for the sake of your secular beliefs my traditional family and religious values and those of my children must change.
I could truly care less as to who you want to sleep with, live with, or do anything else with, that’s your private right!
But you people (there I’ve said it) want to make sure you tare down the entire system before you are done with it, don’t you!
You know that you are not revealing that many many gay people, do not feel the same way you do, and are quite content with the social arrangements that they already have.
Many close associates and friends I have experienced over the years are gay, and this has never effected a healthy relationship developing between us, because we have mutual respect for each others individualism.
Some things must remain the same and this is what sets us apart as individuals with individual beliefs.
One of those beliefs being religion and how it is taught, practiced and understood by some of us.
It is those of you who are in denial of your human difference be it explained as biological or psychological, who have this great need to feel special by destroying all other human perspectives.
To subtly draw attention under the guise of equality that emanates from your social cause. Which is the destruction of religiosity as it has been for millenniums.
You are no better than the Mullah’s who seek the destruction of Israel as a Jewish religious state. I imagine you believe it to should share its homeland with its enemies as well.
