the plain folks are not willing to give up TRADITIONAL marriage just to please a very tiny percentage of the population? Why can't they accept the civil unions and just go away?
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If the law was changed so that YOUR marriage were anulled and deemed illegal by the government, would you just sit down quietly and say
"oh, okay. Sorry, guess I was being a whiner there!"
LOL!!!!
For one moment please try and put yourself in someone elses shoes.
In case ya didn't know it, these kinds of laws allows the creation of legal discrimination, creating a
two-tiered society
In which you have one set of rules for the "normal folk" and one set of rules for "them"
Them can change, but it's always got to be a specific group like a race, gender, sexual orientation and so forth.
So, you mentioned the "plain" folks, which right now qualifies as what? Men and women in hetero relationships?
What if, down the line, a vote is taken of the populace and states start passing laws that only Christian men and women can legally get married?
Or, due to the fact that we seem to be blaming all of the problems of society on the poor, that you won't be legally able to wed unless both you and your partner each make more than 100 thousand per year??? It makes sense after all, cause anyone who makes less than 200 K per year combined has got to be too dumb to be allowed to breed and not able to burden the responsibility of marriage right????
No, government should respect marriage between gays, just as they should respect marriage between consenting adults regardless of orientation, race, income, etc etc.
Long story short- the government should have no place in the bedrooms of the nation!!!