I hate to get involved with these political threads, but this one bothers me enough that I'm willing to make a few statements even in the face of presumed imminent disappointment in humanity.... First of all, let me state the précis of this whole thing, just so I don't get a TL;DR excuse - This is a civil rights issue and should be treated as such. To think this is a religious issue is laughable, and I am simply at a loss of hope for those who cannot see past this. To vote in any way on a civil rights issue because of a religious view ignores the concept of separation of church and state, and damn sure imports your religious views into my civil liberties. This is wrong. This is a civil rights issue because it is about people, who are all equal in this country, last time I checked. If race is not a discriminating factor, then neither is sexuality. The fact that people still think sexual orientation is a choice are simply ignorant to a point of no return. If you refuse to check out this new thing called science, then just assume the sun goes around the earth, and that schizophrenia is just the devil playing around inside you. I refuse to get into a debate about this because it's 2012, and at this point it's like someone trying to ask you to prove that hair color is genetic. [And as an aside, if one more person tries to use that fucking monozygotic twin argument against genetic-based sexuality, I'm gonna shit. It's not 1995 anymore, try some reasoning that wasn't debunked two decades ago] I'm not sure how people got the idea in their religions that it was okay to call some of God's creations sinners while some of them are cool, but apparently it happened. MY God doesn't create straight people and gay people and then decry one as less than the other. There's a reason this Jew isn't Orthodox. I find some of the OT stuff out-dated and inapplicable to modern society. I still find the core theme of how to be a respectable fucking person useful, and I can go by those, but as others have stated, I keep my God to me and I don't expect anyone else to be affected by it. Also, this is called cyclic reasoning and is one of the more obvious logical fallacy types in debate. Homosexuality is only covered under adultery because you decided they couldn't marry. Then you say they can't marry because it's a sin because it's adultery. Ironically, this wouldn't be cyclic if you didn't throw out OT teachings earlier, but since you went there, you made this the remaining logical segue. Soooo, yea...stop that.