Getting the same rights for gay couples has never been an issue with me. In addition I too do not oppose that idea and have concern with gay couples wanting to adopt a child. The idea of a civil union is the direct result of that method of thinking. Give them rights but save marriage as something between a man and a woman. Give them what they want; a union of love between two people but that union is not the same. I think man and woman relationships deserve at least the preservation that mankind’s natural process should be something special and not polluted with access by a minority. Which brings me to today? I have thought at length about this over the past 30 some hours.
My support for their cause has ended and armed with knowledge, it will not return. They seek to destroy an existing institution that does them no harm, they seek to force their moral standard on the masses, while at the same time preaching tolerance and have no respect for the desire of man and woman wanting to keep their marriage as it is. They say it's discriminatory, while at the same time they have an option to get all the same benefits. I have come to a conclusion that based on everything I have taken in over the years; the radical movement in the gay community seeks nothing more than fuel for their hatred of someone else’s moral standard while forcing their own standard on the greater population through intimidation, legal pressure, and dirty politics.
I see the true face of intolerance and I won't support it. One could argue this issue for decades but when a coveted institution and ceremony held dear too many are systematically destroyed be another group for their own selfish benefit, I call that discrimination. That is when a group seeks to destroy and reshape culture for biased reasons that benefit only their set group and alienated ALL others. Tolerance it seems to them, the gay community, is a word that does not exist outside of their own application to others, you MUST be tolerant of ME but I am NOT tolerant of you. That is what this is about for me.
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It's curious how this will play in American politics. John Kerry has enough to worry about, now his own state has brought this up. I would think that many Americans aren't ready to call it eye for an eye on gay marriage in the sense that they are married in ceremony to one another. Some may even feel so strongly about it that they make that their #1 issue based on strongly held moral beliefs. President Bush has said many times he will take measures to protect the current ideology of "marriage". That may appeal to a lot of voters who until this week may have put the economy up on the top of the list. At first I was against some sort of constitutional amendment to protect "marriage" But I was thinking today Blacks have a constitutional right to equal opportunities, gays have a right not to be discriminated against based on sexual preference, I have a right to many things and there are amendments to protect institutionalized things like bearing arms etc. So perhaps the idea that a man and woman have the right to separate their marriage from a man and man marriage isn't so radical?
I guess now I'll be discriminated against, because I have an opinion and be called a "Gay Basher" by angry selfish people trying to use conscious guilt to force their will upon me. Even though I support their desire to live peacefully and be accepted by communities as productive and successful people.
