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Originally Posted by dereds
I still don't get what your marriage or your kids questions have to do to the rights of others. Your rights aren't changing here.
Why do you keep bring it back to "my" marriage?
What about your daughter's marriage? What about your son's? What about the cultural norms that you and they are now subject to? How do they affect you? How do they affect how your belief system is perceived? How is your culture perceived in general, then? How do your kids view it?
You are so asking the wrong questions.
I know you don't "get it." You can't "get" other people when your perception of them is shallow and one-dimensional. They have deeply-held beliefs that they cherish. They have children that they have to raise. They don't want to be alienated or made to be marginalized and excluded. They don't like it when people who don't believe what they believe set out to make a profane mockery of things they believe in. And so on.
Christians are not hand-puppets and cartoon characters. They are your neighbors and coworkers and acquaintances. Perhaps brothers and sisters and parents.
Personally, *I* could care less if homosexuals are allowed to marry. My tendencies are libertarian. Rather, I believe that this issue is simply political capital for the liberal-humanists. I don't believe for a second (having run in the atheist-humanist crowd once) that they give a damn about homosexual people.