Call me a hypocrate, but I dislike gay marriage. The idea of two guys getting married makes me sick to my stomache. Yet I signed a proposition to legalize gay marriage in my state (I won't say which ). The reason why is because I believe that my own prejudice doesn't give me the right to discrimminate.

thenumberone: I totally agree, but with all the church people saying that its immoral and sinful, it would take the United States Supreme Court to set any precident (which I hear the Court is going to finally take up the issue). Even thou the church people shouldn't complain as churchs are classified as a private institution, so if Gay Marriage is considered legal then it wouldn't effect them as the Church can deny allowing for Gay Marraige services as private are protected under the Freedom of Associate clause (see Boy Scouts of America vs Dale for more information.)

I have always maintained that it's none of the law's business who married whom, as value judgments are not what the law is designed for.

A year ago I would've told you that nonetheless I find the practice of homosexual sexual activity (the act, not the thing itself: desire is involuntary and action isn't) to be immoral, and not primarily for religious reasons. It's none of my business, it won't make me hate you, but I didn't approve all the same. In fact if memory serves I thought the same thing when I was an atheist. Modern day society has absorbed the letter of the flower children's "do your own thing" attitude while cluelessly omitting the spirit. Nowadays it's *literally* "if it feels good, do it". Nobody sees anything wrong with anything that "doesn't hurt anyone" anymore. Such a simplistic concept of ethics makes me cringe. As a result of this attitude the biological aspect of a biological process is treated like a meaningless little technicality, virtually a trifle--never mind that it is the thing which begins life we're talking about here.

I still think there's something to that in terms of a causal account for our current zeitgeist on the matter, and I maintain what I have said from the start--this is directed at none of you--that to call someone a bigot simply for disagreeing with your own opinion or philosophy is itself an act of bigotry. I don't call all non-Muslims Islamophobes, but anyone who disagrees with the practice of homosexuality is branded a "homophobe" just on general principles, for daring to hold a contrary viewpoint. This is revolting.

All the same, I have begun to rethink my position on (the practice of) homosexuality itself. It occurred to me recently, kind of out of nowhere, that if gay sex is automatically wrong then so is adoption. *That's* based around a biological process too but the parent-child relationship can still be psychologically and spiritually legitimate nonetheless. So I suppose it's no different with gay couples. However, I still do not condone people who "switch"--people for whom homosexuality *is* a choice, because they've discovered it through "experimenting" and found that they prefer it. This, from the way Lot (P) talks in the Koran, appears to be the real vice. Your body is not a science lab. [EDIT: To put it less hastily, anyone who is honest with themselves shouldn't *have* to experiment and these people Lot (P) preached against were cheating on their *wives* just to experiment, which was just one of many vices listed in the text.] However, I will again stress that it's none of my business, that we all do wrong things, and that the law needs to butt out when it comes to these things.