Some thoughts on the Marriage Debate

The thing that the homeosexual community needs to realize is that initiatives like Prop 8 that were passed last year in California are defense measures. Prop 8 did nothing to change the status of civil unions. Prop 8 simply defined a word, and defended an institution that many of us in the heterosexual community hold sacred. For some reason, it seems to me that the gay and lesbian community are the only ones allowed to play the discrimination card here. They talk about their own rights, yet they don't even want to discuss ours. Don't get me wrong; I know there is plenty of unfair discrimination against people who are attracted to those of the same sex, and a lot of that needs to change. However, until the gay and lesbian community can recognize the right of churches (which are and always shoudl be private institutions) to define marriage, they will continue to face massive opposition from The Conservative Christian Right. They like to say that allowing homeosexuals to marry won't affect the rights of churches to define marriage, but there have already been a number of cases in this country where churches were forced to marry same-sex couples. And with liberal ideas currently dominating the American public school system, those who continue to believe in traditional marriage will come under attack and persecution from the American Left. If we're going to grant rights to one group of people, let's make sure that it doesn't trample on the rights on another.