Dear gays in America: Refocus your efforts to get the government out of marriage.

The gays in America seeking their marriage equality are barking up the wrong tree. Instead of seeking to make the government completely trash the tradition of marriage in practically every religion on the planet that recognize marriage — and as far as I know the ones that do only recognize it between man and woman — what they should be doing is fighting for the government to get out of the marriage business all together.

The USA was not founded on the premise that the religious get brownie points over the non. The fact that marriages grant people legal and financial benefits amazes me and is in my opinion a gross violation of the separation of church and state. How these laws still exist are beyond me. This is what the gays should be campaigning to get rid of. If people want to be married in the eyes of their god, so be it. Go do it in a church, but let’s not have the government treat you special now. If gays want a means to scream to the world that they have a partner that they love, then fine, do it before the justice of the peace and let the strength of the love between you both be recognized as on par with that of a marriage done under religious tones in a church. Simple as that. But let no legal and financial benefits come from it.

But the people campaigning for marriage equality are very shortsighted on the matter. They dont realize, or maybe don’t care that they are asking the government to further infringe upon the separation of church and state and that they really have no right to force churches to rewrite their bibles to their liking, no matter if the writings are true or not, or whether or not you think they’re silly. Just because one might think something to be silly doesn’t give them authority to mold it to their will. I myself am an agnostic and I think religion is ridiculous, but alas, it’s real and however cult-ish it may be, millions of people believe it and therefore we have to live with it. How would you like it if a religious group was pushing to implement a law into society based on its traditions? I’m sure you wouldn’t like it. But if you want to force churches to re-write their bibles to accommodate you, then you by all rights should be open to churches looking to re-write the laws of the land to accommodate them, and I’ll bet a lot of money none of you are willing to let that happen.

To the gays of America: Refocus your efforts. Realize what you’re tryng to accomplish is really wrong and selfish in regards to trying to change hundreds of years old religious texts. Despite your ego, you’re not important enough to have bibles re-written to your liking. Also realize that what the government does is very wrong and selfish too when it comes to how it handles marriages, and work to make people realize this and work to change it. Then you will have true equality.