This entire issue has become a pet peeve of mine. As a single male of advancing years with a, shall we say, sometimes less than macho demeanor, I have been mistaken many times in my life for a homosexual, and have indeed had gay friends and considered myself for years to be pretty progressive on the issue of homosexuality.  What I have most decidedly never been is a homophobe.  Indeed, the term itself is sort of ridiculous, and I think it good to clarify that not only do I not fear homosexuals, in most cases I actively enjoy them as people.  I don't have to like their sex habits, and I don't have to care.  So for years, I didn't care.  Live and let live, right?  It's the American way.

In the last decade, any hint of resistance to the idea of gay marriage has garnered anyone, no matter their previous beliefs or attitudes, the label of bigot by gays who are quite frankly lying when they make the comparison to race and gender to support their political agenda. One does not have a male or female "orientation", or a African or Caucasian or Asian "orientation". Race and gender are physical traits. Homosexuality, whether it is an "orientation" or not, whether it is a choice or not, is expressed as a behavior, and we are none of use required to check our brains at the door when discussing this issue.

I am sick to death of it. Marriage? Benefits? Why? To what possible social goal do we extol the virtues of an abnormal, if not clinically so, sexual orientation or behavior? You can live together, you can have sex together. You can even be married under any spiritual tradition that accepts this for gays. Why the perks? What need for sharing benefits, and why would any sane person want to set themselves up for the inevitable extension of divorce law into their lives should they decide to part?

I think it is nothing more fancy than a direct attack on freedom of religion. By selling this issue as a civil rights issue, leftists (who have been directly involved in the gay rights movement from its inception) hope to place a permanent wedge between the Christian religion, which cannot with any honesty condone homosexuality, and the government.

It's nothing noble. It's the hardball politics of destruction at its utter worst