re: #298 ArmyWife

Because it goes against what I believe morally. I have no issues with explaining that at all.

You don’t approve of gay civil unions? Fine. Then don’t enter one. But please don’t demand that your personal morality be coercively imposed upon unwilling others via the legal machinery of the state.

In constitutional democratic republics, an array of choices have to be available to us, in order for choices between them to mean anything. And we will make choices of which others will not approve, and others will make choices of which we do not approve; that’s the nature of liberty.

Only in theocracies and totalitarianisms are all of our choices either mandated or forbidden. The price of freedom is tolerance for the rights of those who exercise their freedoms differently than we do to make the choices that they prefer.