First, the courts are made up of people, very learned people (mostly, anyway), who study the law and rule according to previous cases and precedents, all of which are ultimately based on the U.S. Constitution. It is their assigned duties to specifically looks at the cases and to make just, legal and meaningful rulings. Because of this, we are not a country that has absolute majority rule. The court system was established to protect any “suspect minorities” from a “tyranny of the majority”. So, we must fight out same-sex marriage in the courts, and eventually we will have the associated rights whether any religious groups like it or not. One claims a court I legislating from the bench only when one does not agree with their rulings, and of course, all court cases ultimately are legislative rulings, including those where they say the courts only “interpret the constitution”. It is the nature of the beast. Courts are not designed to be rubber stamps of executive proclamations and legislative motions. To do so would remove the checks and balances we so desperately need to keep tyrants in check.

And I agree that marriage between any two people, mixed-sex or same-sex should be considered “holy”. Having laws allowing same-sex marriage in ABSOLUTELY no way diminishes anything “holy” about mixed-sex marriages, and in ABSOLUTELY NO way does it interfere with them. Anyone who says otherwise is simply a tyrant and a control freak. They are completely in error to think otherwise.

That said, every person who chooses a religion does just that: THEY CHOOSE RELIGION. Religion does not choose them. And thusly, their choice affords them no special place or status in society. They need to get over themselves and quit listening to the brainwashing done by their “no-so-holy-than-thou” cleric leaders.

So let it be known to everyone, religious or not, that because a person chooses their religion, and adopts the ways and policies of their chosen religion, their choice ABSOLUTELY:
(1) does NOT give them a superior moral position over anyone else.
(2) does NOT endow them with a monopoly on good, kind, ethical and high moral behavior,
(3) does NOT transfer to them a position of authority over any other human being.
(4) does NOT allow them to become judge and jury over any other person or group.
(5) does NOT grant them any privileges to spew hateful speech, to incite hateful actions, or to manifest hurtful actions or evil deeds against another.
(6) does NOT authorize them to act with discrimination, picking and choosing whom they believe to be virtuous and faultless, or the opposite.
(7) does NOT pardon them for their discriminatory behavior.
(8) does NOT authorize their so-called “sacred” texts to have any superior status over the secular laws of the land.
(9) does NOT allocate to them any preferential status within the United States government or governments of the States or its local communities.
(10) does NOT allow them to act contrary to law, or against another person, without rebuke or reprisal.

Please take this list and apply it to all religious organization so they will begin to understand their status with our society. I do not wish to belittle their religion, but then again, I require that they do not diminish me or any other “suspect minority” which they may dispute. I demand to be treated with dignity, and they must comply, and according to law or court ruling, as the case may be.

Let it be written; let it be done, NOW.

What they fail to say is that these studies don on the “breakdown of marriages” have been done on STRAIGHT MARRIAGES. We gays haven’t had the luxury until recently, so that crap in not relevant.

A child needs a loving and nurturing home environment, NOT A ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN QUOTA.

You know what’s really sad? These groups are spending millions of $ trying to deny us our rights. Think what they could be doing with that money…

James