Marriage under Assault in Federal Courts: Why It Matters | The Foundry

Marriage under Assault in Federal Courts: Why It Matters | The Foundry

Efforts to restrict the right to marriage from homosexuals is akin to that of racism, but this is legislated. The government is attempting to set laws that exclude a groups of individuals and deny them rights. The only other time in America's history I can recall this happening was under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

While I believe that the government has not right to legislate certain aspects of our lives, including marriage, I believe they are invalidating the separation of church and state by taking a traditional religious perspective on legislating who can be married. If you have religious beliefs on marriage, good for you. Those are your beliefs and you are entitled to them. What you are not entitled to is forcing your views on another human. That is bigotry, plain and simple.

Gays have just as much right to be married and miserable as straights. Anyone putting that much effort in to trying to prevent it should probably concentrate on their own relationships. Views that gays don't make good parents (I think everyone understands that they don't have the ability to create biological children) is simply ignorant and ill-conceived. An attempt to legislate away the rights of another is a failure of freedom, and it chips further away at the strength of America.