No one is required to actually accept the legal behavior of others, there is no law against someone hating or judging or thinking negatively about a person because of the color of their skin, gender, ethnicity, sexual preferences, etc.
The law requires tolerance of actions and abiding by the law, not acceptance of someones actions as "moral" or "normal." No one going to force the Evangelicals to think any differently than they think right now.
The point is that equal protection under the law should extend to all people, not just the majority...this is about minorities being given equal rights under the law, marriage being a legal contract.
Normal really has nothing to do with it, as who is to really say what is normal?
You? The Pope? Bush? Kerry? Cheney? Clinton?
See what I mean?
The law doesn't make evaluations of normal actions and contractual arrangement per say, it makes evaluations of what actions and contracts are legal and binding, and protected by law.
The point is that "normal" is in the eye of the beholder, but the concept of justice being blind shields it from the bias of "normal" versus "abnormal."
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Why is it such a jump to think that if we have to accept homosexuality as normal and ok we wont be asked to accept pedophelia and beastiality as normal? It was not too long ago that they were all seen as one in the same, but now social ideas change about what we must accept and not accept.
What about this: Gay's make the claim they are born that way, and I will not agrue the point that they are. Pedophiles also claim that they are born that way. Today we see acting on one urge as ok and normal and the other as terribile. I know a lot of things can be said that children can not choose and two adults can, and that is a very valid point, but my point is that it is a slippery hill with all of these issues, where do we draw the line and say I will pass judgement on you for your private behavior? There has to be some point at which we do that, but what is it? I don't know and the line gets thinner and thinner every day.