Check your christian morality bullshit at the door and LEARN to pick your fights. Gays are a minute voting block but they DO have the support of many others.
Losing elections over trivial bullshit that only affects a few people while the debt and everything else spirals out of control makes no sense.
Lets focus on the things that matter to everyone and stop picking fights that alienate us over small things.
Sin is sin for believers so stop bitching about what Sally does with her tongue when Johnny is no better off when he envies the Harley in his neighbors garage.
If they want to partake in the hell aka marriage give it to them. It's a piece of ******* paper ultimately.
Gay marriage has never been is not now and never will be a major issue with me.
I agree.
In my youth in Communist Hungary, where pilfering and stealing was the only way to get some comfort and undeserved 'wealth' it was accepted to pilfer and steal, unless, of course, one was caught doing so.
Sex, cheating on one's spouse was never in issue, heterosexual or otherwise. There was a saying: "let them **** as long as they don't steal".
So, I don't care about gays forming a life-long union. I don't care if they get all the benefits I am getting as a married heterosexual.
But - as we have seen, time and time again regarding the word "******" - words DO have meanings and consequences.
Those who object to the use of the "N" word cry about the history of it and claim that using it is hurtful, based on about - generously - 300-400 years of slavery in America, which, by the way ended 150 years ago, at the expense of 600,000 lives, mostly white, should remember that the word "MARRIAGE" has a history much, much longer.
If they can be offended by the word "******" which is just a mispronunciation of the word
"Negro", which is the politically correct version of "colored" which turned into "black", which morphed into the idiotic "African-American", I can be offended when some yahoo wants to change the definition of a WORD, that had one and only ONE meaning and definition for thousands of years.
Let gays be united for life. Let them enjoy spousal benefits. Let them adopt kids. Let them, after the initial glow of happiness experience the disillusion, the hurt and the reality of divorce, which is sure to come, just as it comes to hetero-sexual couples.
But be tolerant of thousands of years of tradition, and don't call it "MARRIAGE".
Find another word. It should be easy for a group of people who managed to hijack the word "GAY" and distort it to something that it is not.