Incinerator, I really applaud your backing of traditional marriage, but I truly don't believe you have a leg to stand on if you don't fight your case from a religious standpoint.
The truth is, if you are a Christian, marriage is marriage and shouldn't be tampered with. If you truly read the Bible and believe in what is written you cannot possibly be in favour of seeing same sex marriages. Sure, we might bear the ridicule of Rouge and others, but that really shouldn't bother us in the grand scheme of things.
But if you don't profess to be a believer in a religion, there is not really any good reason out there to keep gays from marrying. There are no means, logical, moral or otherwise that you can use to prove that there is no room for such a change in legislature.
So I wish you'd stop trying to logically argue the merits of traditional marriage, because frankly, you are losing badly. For the average non-religious citizen marriage is a part of society, and as society changes, its constructs will change as well. It's common sense. No dictionary nazi is going to slow down these changes.
I personally don't care what the gays are doing on their own time. I only become increasingly nervous when I see the freedom of religion laws being rewritten by the courts. The judges are so worried about the minorities being slighted that they are pounding away at the rights of the majority.
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