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>I agree with you. The whole thing is fed by professional protesters who care about their or someone else right to 'marry' his/her partner much less than about own ego and/or political gain. Some people just cannot stand someone else clinging to traditional values like going to church or marrying the opposite sex. It is not enough to them that their behavior is accepted and protected by law. They want anyone else to behave like them.
This really does not proceed logically. " Some people just cannot stand someone else clinging to traditional values like going to church or marrying the opposite sex." You are too smart to believe this is the issue. No one is trying to forbid heterosexual marriage or religious belief. Homosexuals wishing to marry do no want "anyone else to behave like them". It is a matter of heterosexuals feeling somehow homosexual marriage impacts them, which it does not except in that it violates their religious beliefs - which they believe should control the behavior of others - or just generally freaks them out as they cannot accept homosexuality for whatever visceral reasons (perhaps understandable for them at a gut level, but it does not give them the right to impose this on others)
The only people trying to limit or change the behavior of others is those opposing equal status for same-sex marriages.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
