Creepy Condescending Wonka

Little do you realize is that the founding fathers based many of the laws and creation of this country off of their religious beliefs. No document will mention God because they were wanting people to have the freedom to choose their own religion and religious beliefs, and to make laws based off of the Christian God would violate that. One of the reasons they left England to come here was because England was forcing people into one religion. Maybe you need to go back and study history some more.

They were actually forcing them to be christian, maybe you should go back to the books.

Forcing someone to accept sinful acts as being normal is not what beihg a Christian is.

Yeah insult me on my lack of knowledge yet you don't know what you're talking about.

I don't know what I am talking about? You think forcing religious people to accept same sex marriage is forcing them to be Christians? That has nothing to do with being a Christian. There is a thing called loving the sinner, not the sin, which means that we care for people and help them from turning from the sin in their life. Homosexuality is a sin, that is written in the Bible plain and simple. So forcing us to accept it as being normal and not a sin is not forcing us to be Christians, it is forcing us to live of the world and not just in the world. I have yet to hear when the first wedding was according to any government if you claim that marriage has nothing to do with religion but something the government allows. If I don't know anything, then prove me wrong, if you can.

I respect that you are religious, however you shouldn't be determining how others lives are lived. It's their choice (you know free will, the thing this country was founded on). You also must understand the diversity in America, it's one of the most diverse places on earth. You can't expect everyone to believe the same thing you do.

You don't respect that I am religious, otherwise you won't force me to accept your lifestyle choice. Trying to keep marriage between a man and a woman is not stating how others should live their lives. We can't force people to not be gay, but we should be allowed to dictate what is acceptable in our religious practices. And once again marriage is a religious practice between one man, one woman, and God. It has absolutely nothing to do with the government. Governments of the past saw that families that were comprised of a man and a woman, who are genetically capable of having kids (unlike homosexual couples who don't have the right sexual organs to conceive a child together), provide benefits to the communities they are a part of by helping them grow. That is why the governments started giving benefits to those who got married, evidence marriage did not start with the government since benefits were not always given to married couples. Then when people either didn't want to get married in a religious fashion, or were not able to because they are gay, civil unions were created in order to allow those people to join in a legal union based off the government and given certain rights that married couples got. If those couples wanted to get more rights more equal to what married couple received, they could file paperwork. But if a same sex couple cannot provide the same benefits to a community that a straight couple can, then why would the governments want to give them all the same rights?

BTW, free will was given to us by God our Creator, not the government. And the country was founded off of the laws of Nature and of Natures God, not free will.

Although I can't expect everyone to believe the same things I do, and I never stated that I do, the same should go for you. Forcing religious people to accept same sex marriage is forcing us to change our beliefs in saying that homosexuality is not a sin. So really, who is forcing who to do what here? Religious people are just trying to keep their religious practices, it is the LGBT community that is forcing their beliefs onto religious people.

Marriage - the legally or formally recognized union of a man and a woman (or, in some jurisdictions, two people of the same sex) as partners in a relationship... don't see anything to do with religion here, i do see government though.

The government did not create marriage. The government pnly gave benefits to married couples. If marriage was something that was created by the government, then they would never would have created civil unions. The bible does mention the first marriage when it talks about a man leaving his parents and taking a woman to be his wife and they become one flesh. This was mentioned with Adam and Eve. When was the first mention of marriage with the government?