[TheRealThing]

What you say I say is a distortion. Always. If the power of the federal government is not broad enough to guarantee ALL citizens equal protection under the law, it is too narrow. That is not a separation of church and state arguement. Racism, as a matter of the heart, needs no italics, and no Patti Partisan of any party need exalt or fluff feathers.

Your Christian scruples bend your conscience away from adultery, from gambling, yet you do not argue that adulterers and gamblers be denied marriage. Your particular scruples posit homosexuals as a special class of sinner, a class that does not merit equal protection. That is a matter of separation of church and state. Seeking to cloud the issue, you attempt to blow smoke up all our backsides. Douse that flame.

Not according to God, or sound logic for that matter.

The only thing homosexuals have gotten for their efforts, are taxpayer funded benefits and legal recourse forced upon an unwilling public. But the function of the federal government was never to guarantee or grant validity to those with a bent to sexually depraved behavior. Such is what they crave but no law can ever grant. And though your ilk would use it for that, and argue with your last breath that you're right, the bulk of America knows better. The stuff you shovel is the liberal's attempt to lend unmerited dignity to unacceptable and according to God, unnatural behaviors. Just as judicial eloquence under the expanded auspices of the right to privacy never quite managed to build a bridge between murder, aka abortion on demand, aka women's health, and morally acceptable behavior.

The separation argument is the reasoning behind the open rebellion men mounted against the authority of God. Because as our system of law is based in the Christian understanding of morality, how could one then argue with omniscience, infallibility and righteousness, right? Lawyers therefore, had to get Christian precepts out of the way if they ever hoped to prevail in moral matters. The only smoke being blown on here is produced during one of your many defenses for sin and/or depravity. But your dutiful compulsion to preach the liberal message provides a much needed service, and for that I am happy to set the record straight as often as I have occasion.