If that's the case, one wonders why the Mormons and others are so enraged about it, and are trying to convince us that it will bring about the end of everything that makes life worth living.
No one's ever claimed that. After all, its only perhaps 2% or 3% of the population. LDS concern for them, as individuals, is for their eternal welfare, and nothing more. They can accept or reject that concern, as their free agency dictates. Oh, you mean the gay rights/marriage agenda? You mean the leftist project of
redefining and reconceptualizing the core foundational basis of civilization itself: the family, gender, gender roles, and the legitimate boundaries of human sexuality. Oh, that's what you mean.
The answer, of course, is pure bigotry.
Yes, but its primarily on the Left. I have no feelings of bigotry toward homosexuals whatsoever. My philosophy regarding that is complex, principled, and rigorously thought through, over many years.
After all, it's gay marriage that they are trying to legally prohibit, not gay sex (no matter how much or how little of it there is). So it's not about morality or 'sin' at all, because prohibiting gay marriage does not equate in any way to less gay sex. Quite the opposite, actually.
The logic of this argument quite escapes me, but moving on, its true, no one is thinking about prohibiting homosexual behavior, per se. Not even possible (at least in a free society)
The problem is definitions and concepts, and their effects on the possibility of the continuance of a morally viable, free, civil social order and, from a gospel standpoint, upon the eternal welfare of those who will grow up in a culture that no longer cares about or understands what "morality" even is.
