Gay Marriage - It's Okay to Be Against It.

Ever feel like there are people in this world that hate you just because you are who you are? For instance, are you a person of faith who attends Mass on a regular basis; a person who believes in what the Bible says and takes its words to heart? Are you a person who listens to your pastors sermon and try to do the best you can to live by God's Law? If so, there are people who will call you a bigot. They will call you things I just cannot write. They will insult your intelligence. I say, don't be intimidated by them.

There are good people, who know the difference between right and wrong, but who get intimidated into changing there positions, because they don't want to be thought of as a bad person or a bigot. Nobody wants to be called those things. But that's no reason to change your position when people say such things. Realize that they are the bigots, the extremists, the radicals, who simply hate us for who we are.

Take the issue of gay marriage. There is nothing wrong with opposing it on moral grounds or for reasons of tradition. Yet people will say if you don't support gay marriage that you are a hateful person. Not true. I don't support gay marriage, and I'm not a hateful person. Two consenting adults can do what they want for all I care. I will hold no ill will towards them. But I will not support gay marriage.

My position is this. Marriage is the union of one man and one woman, for the purpose of starting a family. It is a thing of nature, a thing of tradition that has been the foundation of our civilization for more than 2,000 years. Without the tradition of marriage, we would not be the society we are. It would be vastly different, a society without morals or values. It is a thing of nature because a man and a woman are meant to be together. God made animals male and female, and designed them such that their union is essential for the survival of their species. Two people of the same sex can produce no fruit. They can't procreate. That is why society in general recognizes marriage between a man and a woman, because their union produces a benefit to society in the form of children.

Gay marriage produces no benefit to society. None. If two people of the same sex want to live together and build a life and do what they want to do in the privacy of their own home, that's fine by me, but society does not need to give a certificate of approval for two people to do that. That's how I see it, and that's why I'm opposed to gay marriage.

Don't be intimidated into giving up your values. There is nothing wrong with them. Anytime someone calls you a bigot, or an extremist, just point back at them and call them the bigots and the extremists. They are the radicals trying to change your world to fit their view. Stand up to them.

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