ScottyRo

Honestly, I don\'t have a real strong opinion on this matter. However, I believe the first argument against gay marriage is that homosexuality is wrong. The simple fact that lots of people do it and don\'t feel that it is wrong doesn\'t change that. There are plenty of people molesting children everyday that don\'t appear to have a problem with that either.

Otherwise, I feel that a person who lives a homosexual lifestyle has chosen to do so outside of the normal and natural conventions of our society. Now, they are outside of what is and has always been legal marriage and want to change it to fit the world they want to live in so that they can receive validation of their lifestyle\'s propriety.

The problem with allowing this sort of thing is that it may further shift our society away from the traditional nuclear family which has been shown to be the most healthy environment in which to raise children.

Now, as for your separation of church and state argument. It is a common misconception to say that a person should not bring up the Bible or religious philosophy when discussing politics in this country. However, \"church and state\" does not mean that religous views and philosophies should not be included in our laws or politics. It simply means that the government should not tell its population how to worship their God, if any. To go further than that is to ignore that the United States was founded on moral and religious principles. These principles are embodied in our laws and declarations.

Additionally, President Bush is not the government of the United States. He has been slammed in some circles for his religious beliefs and his willingness to express them. However, his expression of his faith is not a command that all the people of the US follow his lead. It is simply a person that happens to hold a political office expressing his philosophy on a subject just like any other. He has as much right to speak out in favor of his faith as he does to speak against the abuse of illegal drugs, for instance.

Thus, the actual abuse of the church and state clause would be to pass a law prohibiting the president from expressing his beliefs. At that point you have the government telling an individual how to worship his God - an obvious violation.