Republicans want Washington to be in charge of the sacred - to be the contractual gateway to the sanctity of marriage. They want a government bureaucrat to decide what forms of sex and love are permissible between two consenting, non-related adults. Get government out of the way and let God send people to hell for their choices. We don't need a nanny moral state controlling the decisions and freedom of consenting adults.
I want a minimal state, one that functions like a vending machine that hands out contracts to consenting adults so that they can be judged by God based on their free decisions. Maximize choice for adults, and let God - not Washington - be the judge.
Republican : "But I don't want them to flaunt it in front of me and my children."
Answer: They're not going to have sex in front of you; and if they do, they will be prosecuted for public indecency. They (all humans) have a right to hold hands and hug each other in public. If you're worried about your children growing up in a world where gays are not being actively prosecuted, than you need stronger children. The whole point of parenting is to raise children with sound analytical and critical faculties, so that they can evaluate and judge the world's moral content for themselves, based on their own free choice. If you're raising children that can't rise above their environment and make free choices about what they want and who they are, than you are to blame.
Republican: "But, as a citizen, if my Government allows gay marriage, than I become tacitly responsible through democratic participation for endorsing behavior which I think is evil or detrimental to society."
Answer: Stop making Washington so crucial to your religious and moral life. We don't want an all-powerful state that houses and enforces our morality. We want a minimal state that hands out boring contracts to adults as well as defending the nation against foreign enemies and protecting property at home. The sanctity of marriage comes from your free choice and your God. It has nothing to do with Washington. Stop looking to the Nanny Moral State for vindication of your marriage.
Republican: "But, are not gays looking to Washington for vindication of their marriage?"
Answer: Nope. They want the right not to be called morally inferior by the State, which denies them marriage because of a religious standard that Washington has no business enforcing. Religion and morality comes from people freely exercising their choice. The State must always remain neutral and minimalist, expanding freedom with blinders on, handing out contracts without bias, so as to maximize the religious and moral freedom of all citizens. Once the state is captured by one group who uses the centralized power of the State to deny rights to other groups, we have lost freedom.
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