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You know who you are. You’re the one that speaks out against gay marriage and educates everyone so eloquently on how being gay is a choice. Reminding us of how allowing gays to marry threatens the very foundation of marriage. So much so that by not actively fighting against it, you would be condoning this abomination to God. Therefore you fight. You fight to ensure no one can have this right to ensure the sanctity of man. It’s altruistic really.

Unless it isn’t. People make “sinful” choices all the time. Maybe they drink too much, watch pornography, covet something, whatever. Yet we don’t have laws preventing every possible biblically defined sin. So why go after gay marriage? That is the paradox. Lets assume you’re in a “traditional” marriage and you believe being gay is a choice. What part of your marriage becomes threatened when gay marriage becomes legal? There is only one possible conclusion. You’re gay. If you weren’t, there would be literally zero impact to your marriage, and the only possible threat would be the permission granted to you to pursue a same sex relationship, thus threatening your marriage.

Before you start sending me death threats, follow me on this. Alcohol claims almost 100,000 lives each year in the US. It was largely religious organizations that pushed for prohibition in 1920 because of the “moral decay” it caused. Then we repealed it for too many reasons to list. But the justification was the same. Religious leaders wanted to protect their communities from themselves. Given the fact that a large percentage of openly gay people are not religiously affiliated, who is left to protect against this marital threat? Perhaps the people that can’t “come out” due to religious persecution?

To me it’s pretty simple. As a male, I have never been attracted to other males. I couldn’t even choose to be if I wanted to. I firmly believe that people have an inherent sexual orientation. The only reason to resist that orientation is your social environment. So by the powers of reasonable deduction, if you’re fighting same sex marriage because you believe it is a threat to the foundation of marriage, you’re probably gay. Wait until Rick Santorum’s wife finds out…

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