A refreshing glimmer of sanity in the darkening abyss of the ever-more secularized and increasingly relativist United States of America.
The law is supposed to be secularized.
This isn't sanity. It's fucking bigotry. Plain and simple.
Imagine during the 20's rights were given to women but it's effect was that rights were taking away from men? Who has a greater right? Is there such a thing as a greater right?
Are you actually suggesting that women should have fewer rights?
Anyway I think everybody here will agree that people should have rights taken away if they have too many - i.e. if there isn't complete equality.
Anyway, you're working under two fallacious assumptions:
1. That it is somehow "natural" to engage in heterosexual activity and "unnatural" to engage in homosexual activity. This was a working implicit assumption of yours which you failed to support at any time. EDIT: More than this, it's important to explain why unnatural things are necessarily worse. Everything in America is unnatural. Buildings, air conditioning, prepackaged food, movies, books, guns, glasses, computers... basically everything. Homosexual activity seems to me to be a lot more natural than any of these things, and if you're going to make the "unnatural" argument, you're basically arguing that we shouldn't be doing anything but having heterosexual sex at any time ever.
2. That marriage exists in order to promote the well-being and health of children. Everybody who's against same-sex marriage says this at one point or another, and it couldn't be farther from the truth. I and others have pointed it out in this very thread and many other threads as well, and I've never even heard a direct response to this very valid objection.
Historically, marriage has not existed to promote the raising of children. As I said before, the idea of getting married to somebody who loves you, buying a house, and raising a child in a healthy environment is very recent indeed, and only exists in developed countries.
Under this argument, the process of marriage does work and always has worked like this:
1. Want to start a family.
2. Get married.
3. Have children.
This is factually incorrect. Marriage, in the past, has been more like this:
1. Want to have sex.
2. Get married (probably because the church will not permit you to commit adultery).
3. Have children as a consequence of the sex (because contraception does not exist or the church prohibits it).