Rights

Under a properly instituted Constitutional framework there really is no such thing as Gay Rights just as there is no such thing as Heterosexual Rights or Christian Rights, Male Rights, Female Rights, Jewish Rights and on ad infinitum.

There are only individual rights which everyone has regardless of anything else. The government is required to practice equality under the law.

This clearly means that individuals have the right to live the life they choose as long as their choices do not infringe on other individuals right to live as they choose.

Therefore each and every individual has the right to choose who they associate with, how they worship or don't worship a divine being(s), who they love, who they live with, who they give legal powers to, what they put in their body, what they refuse to put in their body and so on.

Every action or law that interferes with an individual's right to live their life as they choose is a step away from freedom and a step closer to totalitarianism.

It matters not in the least what I or anyone else might think of another person's choices. It is not a question of what society thinks or what a majority thinks.

Societies and majorities do not need protection of rights, minorities do. It is not difficult to espouse popular views or to live a life following majority values. The protection of rights becomes critical for those who espouse unpopular views and who live lifestyles out of the mainstream.

When we allow government to be used to deny others the choices they wish, we all lose. We have set up a system that can be used to deny the choices we wish to make.

Unfortunately that is the system we have in the US today.