Are we Republican?
No.
Are we worthy of being Democrats and worthy of your vote?
Yes.
Let me explain to you my position on gay marriage before you burn me in effigy.
I believe marriage is a religious institution. The government (or state) had no business of ever getting involved in performing marriages or granting marriage licenses. To me, it would be like if the government performed Mass every Sunday. Marriage is a religious ceremony and a religious sacrament.
If I had my way, I would go back how many hundred years to when some idiot decided that government should get involved in marrying people and I would slap him or her across the face. But I cannot do that.
In my perfect world, I would forbid the state from granting marriage licenses or performing marriages. I would instead have the state grant recognition of the union between two consenting and unrelated adult persons by way of a Union Certificate. This Union Certificate would bestow upon those two consenting and unrelated adults all rights, responsibilities, burdens, obligations and benefits that are currently given to heterosexual married couples.
That would mean that homesexuals and heterosexuals would each receive the same rights. Equal rights.
If you want to get "married," you have to find a church to "marry" you. Some churches do not marry two men or two women and instead only perform marriages for a man and a woman. However, I do believe some churches do perform gay marriages.
Now, my "Marriage Reform" is probably never going to see the light of day. I am sure some Justice of the Peace lobby group will fight me every step of the way. However, I do want homosexuals to enjoy (and suffer) the same equal rights with respect to marriage as heterosexuals. Therefore, I support any kind of civil union or domestic partnership bill that does so.
But I will never support government imposed gay marriage because to do so will mean I support a government telling a religion what to do. And that runs opposite the First Amendment.
Now, I am not a bigot. I do not hate homosexuals. Hell, I like them a lot. So if you state that I am, you are lying. It is possible to be against gay marriage (as I have shown) but be for equal rights and be supportive of homosexuals.
I believe many Democrats share my way of thinking.
Yet you all are willing to turn away them and our own candidates over this one issue.
Progressive Purism at its finest.
You know, we can all agree that DC Democrats bear much responsibility for our minority status in Washington. But, you know, Progressive Purists are almost as responsible.
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