I fully support gay rights and they should be fully allowed to enter into binding agreements with another consenting person of legal age and mind. Which is all marriage is. The US Constitution provides this fully as it is a document that doesn't differentiate between race, creed, sex, nationality... it gives every individual the same rights and protections that any other individual has. It can't judge based on sex, so any two consenting adult can be wed. For those who think this means that you can marry a horse or first cousin etc.. all of that is governed by laws at both the federal and state level and are protected under the same Constitution. So allowing gay marriage will not change any of that. So that slippery slope debate is non-sense.
I have lots of gay friends and acquaintances and I'll be honest, even after all of this time it still does make me feel odd. I don't say anything out of respect but I think a lot of people feel that just thinking it is wrong would be a crime if homosexual marriage is legalized. I think that is why so many people are afraid to state their opinion. Just look at that racist basketball team owner. His organization is not ran in a racist way but his personal views are, yet what happened to free speech and privacy? The funny thing is that most racist people probably aren't even racist, They're just from another time where things were different. Hell most people are not even anti gay, it's just that they have had it beaten into their heads by others, such as the church. For no other reason than someone or something selected gays out as the next big crusade, aka target to bash.
Think about it, we've been here before, first slaves, women rights and now homosexual rights. There is no legal ground to not just end this fight already. What do all of these causes have in common? They were all individual rights restricted to one class of people. Which is unconstitutional.
