I know that is does not get much attention anymore as the gay community fights for their imagined rights, but you do know that marriage licenses have been denied before by states for reason of age, mental issues, and certain communicable diseases, right? No, there is not right for ANYONE to get married, not a man to a man or a man to a woman. saying that states cannot deny a license on the basis of sex is one thing, but to say that gays have a right to get married is to give them something no one else has. I know the difference is small, but it does exist.

Please point to the amendment in the bill of rights that says so. Oh wait, it's not there. Marriage is a privilege granted by a state. Like a drivers license or a building permit or like my concealed carry permit. But it's not just a state permit, it's also religious in nature. That is the part you can never have.

Marriage is a two part human custom. Part one is governmental sanction whereby the state grants the union certain political validation. Important for insurance, medical access, inheritance and other legal purposes.

Part two is religious in nature, it is in the Christian church the living example of the future marriage of Christ and the church at his second coming. The bride wears white as a emblem of her chastity and virginal state. The groom waits for her to pass through the crowd of witnesses to meet her bride in heaven. This is also a reference to a scriptural prophecy that you won't understand. The vows are given to express how the groom will care and watch over the bride while the bride vows to only give herself to him - to Christ who loved the church enough to die in order to make a way for her to come to him.

The first part of this ceremony the legal part is actually of no interest to Christians. If gays want a legal union, I, like most Christians could care less. A civil union is simply that, but that is not good enough for these.

They want to take the second part, the part that is only religious in nature and corrupt it, trample it's most fundamental precepts on which the church stands under foot. It is this most basic a religious act that we refuse them and oppose their corruption of it. Look at the photos in the article you linked here and other places and you see the marrying ceremony being so disfigured and purposely disfigured in a way that could not have been more wrong to a Christian than if they were laughing at the deaths of Christians before Nero.

Our faith may be a joke to you and to those who hold your views, but to fundamentalist Christians who actually believe the bible is the word of Living God the corruption of this ceremony is a horribly evil thing. So much so that I can't fully explain just how evil we see it.

You see, we believe there is a black and a white, a good and a bad, a right and a wrong, and yes, a heaven AND a hell. When you stomp on one you gain the other.

This is the last and only time I'm going to attempt to explain this. You cannot offer any challenge that I'll accept and nothing you can offer will change my mind. I have no misconception that I'll change your mind because that would take far more than I can ever give you.

You are quite simply, wrong.

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You are certainly free to petition your state for whatever you choose, but I think it will be a long road for you to legalize your tendencies toward bestiality.