I am disappointed, but not surprised, that Texas has decided to engage in discriminatory moral engineering towards homosexuals.
Our nation was only partially built upon majority rule. That rule was designed withing specific powers and designed to protect the rights of minorities. The civil right to equal access to marriage was just denied a group of people because they are fundamentally attracted romantically to the same gender.
Let me put it point blank from personal experience. Homosexuality is not a choice. It is a fundamental inborn part of whom you are. I was born gay just like I was born white and male.
It would not be such a big deal if government did not discriminate in so many ways towards married people. I would repeal each and every one of them, but that's another topic for another time. The essential point is that Texas has just said my love and commitment to my partner is somehow less valid because he is a man versus a woman.
Some of you here think homosexuality is immoral and that gay marriage is a complete abomination. You know what? I have no problem with that. You are free to hold whatever beliefs and morals you want and express them as much as you want. Call homosexuals or me personally immoral and doomed to hell. Picket outside every gay marriage ceremony. Go right ahead, that's your right. However, you cross a very important line though when you force your morality on me, using the law or otherwise. I have every bit as much right to live my morality as you have to live your morality. Laws like this one in Texas deny people that essential human right.
The only right government has to infringe on morality is to prevent harm to those who do not or cannot consent to the action. A same-sex marriage harms nobody outside the two partners, and it involves two consenting adults. This is where the slippery slope lacks basis. Every argument involves either a party who does not or cannot consent, or involves a vastly different relationship that is not possible to be born with.
Suppose your state passed a law repealing the gender restriction on marriage. What harm would that impose on any heterosexual in your state? What action, belief, thought, or feeling does the passing of this law take away from you? How does this make you love and commitment to your spouse any less?
The difference is that when you place specific bans to strengthen the artificial gender restriction on marriage, you strengthen limitations on my actions and my ability to be an equal member of society.
There is no evidence to even suggest, much less prove, that children with same sex parents are any worse off than children with parents of the opposite sex. 1 in 5 gay couples and 1 in 3 lesbian couples are raising or have raised children.
This form of moral engineering, forcing a certain morality onto everybody is detrimental to the rights and freedom of all.
