NOTE: This is the third column in a series of columns related to National Marriage Week, Feb. 7-14, 2013. The second column is available here.
G.K. Chesterton observed in The Superstition of Divorce that “reformers of marriage . . . do not know what it is, or what it is meant to be, or what its supporters suppose it to be . . . .” Marriage opponents, who today seek not to reform but rather redefine marriage, appear to suffer from the problem diagnosed by Chesterton almost a century ago.
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The ONLY option you have against homosexuality is in the "Free Market of Ideas", where you have no force of law behind you. No police, prosecutorial, or judicial power to FORCE people to accept your views and end homosexuality.
Actually, Lawrence v Texas only determined that sodomy was not punishable as a crime.
Additionally, I believe only two states, both of which are liberal bastions, have actually voted in favor of homosexual unions - the rest have been imposed by judicial activist or lefty legislature. You, similarly, have no "No police, prosecutorial, or judicial power to FORCE people to accept your views and promote homosexuality."
If a legislature votes, that is the people's representatives voting.