Fried, not everything is debatable, not everything has to be justified.
Sometimes things just ARE, and you need to learn to live with them.
Okay.
Marriage is an institution created by God, and is exclusively between one man and one woman. That just
is, and you need to learn to deal with it.
I bet you found that argument
really persuasive.
Let's talk about political capital and expediency, since apparently matters to you. The Republican Party cannot win on the Federal level,
period, without Religious Conservative voters. If they abandon the party, it's going to be out of power for at least a generation, and that's
if the trend towards homosexual acceptance continues.
As Trump being elected demonstrated, Religious Conservatives are willing to vote for a President who is openly pro-gay-marriage, so long as he does not make that one of his primary or driving issues. I voted for him, and I think homosexual marriage is wrong, but in the political arena, it's second or third tier importance at most.
If someone with
your attitude on the issue ran for president? I'd be voting third party, because you are coming across as an obnoxious, arrogant tyrant, who is either incapable or unwilling to make an argument for why something is
right, rather than just doing things that are politically expedient.
And there are
millions of other voters who feel the same way. So your 'political capital and expediency' argument doesn't hold any water either.
I am entirely willing to have a polite and cordial discussion about whether or not homosexuality is ethical, or even whether or not you can still call it 'marriage' after changing the definition. I am
not interested in having somebody try to give me commandments on what is right and wrong, as though they were some divine prophet,
especially when they refuse to justify their position, and are being a jerk about it.
If I am expected to justify my political, philosophical, and religious beliefs, then it is perfectly fair for me to expect anyone else to do the same, including homosexuals.