Even after the judicial and legislative branches took steps to outlaw racism, racism existed.
So why bother to take steps to legislate and have courts protect the rights of minority groups if the majority is still going to maintain their prejudice?
This is your argument against gay marriage. That we shouldn't look to the truth of a situation, simply because it won't change public opinion immediately?
We should do the right thing, that's the American way.
No way 50 years ago could Obama get elected, no way. It has not been the passage of laws and judicial decisions that opened the door directly for Obama to be electable, but those open door gradually and slowly gave people a chance to change their ignorant and unfounded point of view.
Change takes time, generations generally, but the same issues apply to the rights of gays as they have to blacks, women, or any other group that has been denied rights as citizens simply because of their color, their creed, or their sexual preference.
Change starts with accepting what is the right thing to do, keeping church and state separate.
If some gay church exists, that believes that Jesus Christ was a gay man, and was married to the appostles...does the government have a right to stop that church from preaching their message?
Why should the government or the people have a right to discriminate on issues on a religious foundation?
That seems to sun counter to the very principle of the formation of this country, religious freedom for everyone and anyone to practice their own religion.
So what if gays think Jesus was a gay man who married other gay men.
It changes his important message of peace, love, brotherhood, love of God, etc. not one iota.
Preventing people who actually love each other from marrying in any church that will marry them seems quite unconstitutional to me.
Having the government decide which religion should sanctify marriage seems even more unconstitutional to me.
Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:
I agree strongly.
A friend of mine in the Illinois legislator put it succinctly, "homosexuals want to legitimize their lifestyle through marriage but half the people will always look at them as chromosome deficient deviates who suck dick and take it in the ass."
As a conservative I'm thankful to Hillary Clinton and the anti-same sex marriage lobby for one thing. Both campaigns have offered conclusive proof to mainstream America how in the tank l biased to the far left the media has become. The Miami Herald endorsed SSM in Florida. Voters opposed homo marriage by a 62-38 margin. Since the election the Herald has printed no less than a half dozen editorials or op-eds deriding Florida voters for their "prejudice" and "lack of compassion." To find a voice against same-sex marriage in the MSM is like searching for a haystack needle. Hardly a surprise since as many of us already know-the media, Hollywood and academia not only suck cock but gladly and defiantly stick it up the ass of American values and mores.....