Okay, Don (F), I'm glad you understand my position. ;-)

I do think that people have a right to object to same-sex marriage being legalized if they feel it offends their traditional sense of what the term "marriage" means. If so, then they should inform their Congressman or whomever of their opinion, and vote accordingly at election time. I would not automatically characterize them all as "bigots" or "homophobes", however, because many of them may be nothing more than conventional traditionalists...they may not hate gays at all, they may just love the old traditions they grew up with...and it's not a sin to be a traditionalist (whatever the tradition may be).

We've had a continuing brouhaha in Canada, for example, about whether Sikhs who are enlisted as police officers should be allowed to wear their turbans while in uniform. I don't have a problem with it if they do, but the vast majority of Canadians feel that it's not appropriate and that the Sikh police officers should wear the same hats and headgear as all the other Canadian police officers do, because that's the uniform and the tradition in this country. So...it remains a dispute here.

Traditions change, but they usually change slowly. I've seen many change in the last 60 years. I may regret some of those changes, but I have no problem with most of them.