Are Opponents of Same Sex Marriage Homophobes?

There has been a full frontal assault by the homosexual lobby to make same sex marriage the norm, in society, by not giving the voting citizens the right to determine why thousands of years of human experience should be done away with by upholding traditional marriage. Whenever the issue comes before the voters (even in the uber-liberal State of California), the legalization of same sex marriage has been turned down. It seems that only by judicial fiat, by activist judges, and pressured state legislatures, can the gay lobby prevail. This could now be called the new tyranny of “marriage equality”.

If you are for traditional marriage, the tolerant “intolerant” gay activists call you homophobic, bigoted, insensitive and many other vile epithets to make you feel guilty about upholding the time honored tradition of marriage, between one-man and one-woman. Where is the tolerance on the part of the homosexual community for people who disagree with their position on marriage? They demand tolerance, but do not reciprocate when they are challenged on their position.

While Americans have become increasingly likely to believe that the laws should not discriminate against gay individuals and gay couples, the public still seems reluctant, through various elections in a number of states, to extend protections of the institution of marriage. Shouldn't the core idea of this Republic be that the legal standards and social norms reflect the preferences (or at least the consent) of the majority of the people? The reason why the gay community takes this “end run” around the election process is that they know they can't win at the polls.

Marriage has existed for centuries, and until recent times, it has always meant a union between a man and a woman. The real issue today is whether marriage should be redefined. Most people who are against gay marriage are generally in favor of civil unions and personal contracts between same sex couples. By being against allowing one person to marry a person of the same sex is not anti-gay, it is pro-marriage, as every civilization has defined it.

Some gay activists have equated gay marriage as being a civil right as compared to the black civil rights movement. According to noted pundit and social commentator, Dennis Prager, “One has to be either ignorant of segregation laws and the routine humiliations experienced by blacks during the era of Jim Crow, or one has to be callous to black suffering, to equate that to a person not being allowed to marry a person of the same sex. They are not in the same moral universe”. Most blacks reject that comparison as they voted overwhelmingly for California's Proposition 8 that defined marriage as being a union of a man and a woman.

When the courts or intimidated state legislatures succumb to the pressure of the gay lobby to extend marriage to gay couples, you unlock the door to the common sense of natural marriage, there is really no end to the aberrant forms of sexual preferences that will then also be suing to demand marriage rights. The floodgates will then be opened and not for the betterment of the community as a whole.

So, in answer to the headline question, the real homophobes are really the one's making that charge and not the one's to whom they oppose – the advocates of traditional marriage.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann