You must also be careful Ebbie, that your words are not construed as "bigotry" or "Scotsophobia", there are many extremely sensitive people contributing to this thread, and posting here can be a little like walking on eggshells.   ;^)

TIA, why should anyone have to put up with being disagreed with? Are you seriously suggesting we should take away their right to have the world be exactly what they want it to be?

Taking away someone's right to live in a world that doesn't include gay marriage is also a very serious matter. How could they hold up their heads in society if somewhere there are gays or lesbians with the right to inherit property from each other? Or if the government isn't regulating what happens in their bedrooms? Unregulated sex! I shudder to think of it!

One of the things that I wish they understood is that if we give the government the right to regulate any sexual/marriage relationship, that means we are giving them the right to regulate any other relationship. It's not much of stretch to go from denying rights to gay people to denying rights to, say, left-handed people. After all, left-handed people are, or so the story goes, the sons and daughters of Satan. I just don't know why people think they should be allowed to have jobs, at least not until we've done a thorough study of the results of having the children of Satan sitting next to us at work. How do we know it doesn't rub off on us? How would you like to wake up some morning to find that you've become Satan's step child?