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Originally Posted by Guest
Nobody said anything about "repealing" gay marriage. Why do you keep perverting what someone says?
But, if you really want to know why it SHOULD be banned, since there is no federal law regarding marriage, maybe it's because the majority of Americans believe that marriage is religious, and the majority of Americans believe that a religious marriage is defined as one man and one woman.
Homosexuality is a deviant abnormal behavior that is TOLERATED, but not condoned. That is my opinion, which is shared by the majority. Deviant, but unharmful behavior should be kept in the bedroom where ALL sexual behavior should be kept. Not in parades in the street or on TV for the children to see.
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There is no federal law on marriage, perhaps true, but there is a Federal Constitution. And that document is controlling authority for the entire country as interpreted by the Supreme Court. Marriage is a legal merger of individuals into a state recognized by the government and given special consideration. It has nothing to do with religion unless the parties choose to have a religious element to the contract. While some may choose to have the contract witnessed in a religious environment, other choose to have a completely non-religious event for example being married by a judge or other civil authority. What the US Supreme Court said, very clearly, is that any two adults can enter into this contract without needing to be one female and one male. Equal protection requires it under the Constitution no matter what the majority of citizens want. This has been the role of the court and frankly the Constitution to protect the minority against the tyranny of the majority. The majority did not want to have integration in the South, or in the north likely. The majority may well believe cops should be able to stop anyone and search anyone, because if you are not guilty you have nothing to hide. The Constitution says otherwise and the court's job is protect those rights guaranteed whether you or I agree.
No one can tell any religion that it needs to have anything to do with gay marriage. No priest or shaman or preacher can be forced to officiate over a gay marriage. But the law now is that the state may not prohibit gay persons from marriage. You see there is no such thing as "religious" marriage according to civil law. There is only marriage. If the Catholic church decides it will not call a straight couple "married" if the ceremony was done in a courthouse not by a cleric, that is fine with me. It was a marriage without the blessing of a priest. If the Catholic church does not want to call me married to my partner, that is fine with me. I don't need the approval of the Catholic church, or you, on my orientation or my marriage for it to be completely 100% legal in every state of the good old USA
Deviant? My behavior is not deviant. The Church of course defines deviant in lots of ways depending on your particular flavor of God. Oral Sex, deviant. Masturbation super deviant. Anything but Missionary position DEVIANT, as the lovely missionaries of the Christian faith told those sexed up natives to stop having it any other way or go to Hades. So are you deviant too?