While I can only sympathize with all the dread that gets mustered up here about the thought of men fucking each other, I would like to add that this, too, is not the issue.

Because who one fucks, and how they fuck them, is a private, not a public issue. It is tragic when the obsessive repression of the Victorian and Puritan legacies gets so heavily dramatized that a counter-movement of pornography and dramatized sluttery has to occur to balance things out. But again, the issue is not about how much people hate the thought (or internet pictures) of homosexual acts.

You do not have to think about how people do or do not fuck, whatsoever. Why wouldl you want to, anyway?   

But as a citizen, you DO have to think about the nature of civic rights under the law, and seek to make them equitable and fair, or you do a disservice to the rule of law.

I would remind you that "making people behave correctly" is not one of the basic freedoms outlined in our Declaration of Independence, nor in our Constitution.

IF you define marriage as between two people who love each other, you are being fair to any two people who believe they want to create amarriage. If you insist on defining it by gender or sexual practice, you are sliding down the slope of moral busybodiness or theocratic fascism. Not good directions to steer.


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