Religious freedom vs. personal freedom and equality and the darkly prophesied "national conflict between Church and State of enormous proportions."
In other words, gleaned from this letter from the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops to President Obama, my personal freedom and equal access to secular state institutions is not only less important than but is a direct threat to religious freedom and the responsible rearing of this nation’s children.
These are arguments that, no matter how hard I try, I will never ever understand. It is because it’s impossible for me to wrap my head around the logic for these arguments (or maybe they’re just empty) that I must, by process of elimination, assume that any objection to equal access to full civil marriage must be either explicitly or implicitly due to moral disapprobation and bias.
If somebody can give me a reasonable explanation about how providing marriage equality to any two consenting, competent adults who wish to enter such a union is in any way a threat to or may even potentially have a detrimental effect on procreation, parenting, marriage, or the freedom of any group to worship as they please, I’ll be happy to give the other side the benefit of the doubt regarding williful or ignorant animus toward me, my husband, my family, and many of my friends. Until then, I have to presume that opponents of marriage equality simply do not consider me and mine equal because of bias. This is the definition of discrimination, and without reasonable, arguable justification, my mind is just too small to see it as anything but animus.
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