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Quote by: Zhavric  Oh, the bible is quite clear about gays as it's authors demonstrate remarkable homophobia & hatred towards homosexuality.
The problem is that Christians overstep their bounds by opposing gay marriage in the political arena. There is no demonstrable harm caused by gay marriage... nothing to protect against... thus the opposition is motivated solely by hatred. It's a wedge issue that has allowed the political right to consolidate power because huge numbers of Christians will show up & vote for people who will screw them over so long as the politician in question is anti-gay and anti-abortion.
Candidate A is
1) For greater benefits for war veterans.
2) For finding ways to reconcile business needs with enviromental issues.
3) For keeping jobs in America and helping businesses.
4) For allowing gays to marry.
Candidate B is
1) For slashing benefits for war veterans
2) For trashing local enviroments / allowing businesses to polute drinking water
3) For outsourcing and making sure jobs go overseas.
4) AGAINST gay marriage.
The sad thing about our country is the evangelical Christian who has a house on a stream where his younger kid plays... has a son in Iraq... and works at a factory that risks being moved overseas will vote for candidate B on the grounds of gay marriage or similar wedge issues.
It happened in Kansas and throug out the entire nation.
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There is a demonstrable harm in allowing gay marriage. For one, the next step is gay people demanding that pastors not preach against homosexuality. This has been done before, when a gay group tried to sue a pastor. Another thing is it would force pastors to head up the marriages, and most, like my pastor, say that he will go to prison rather than that.
Secondly, in the above situation, I would write in a vote instead of voting for the two major people in candidacy