Originally posted by: spidey07
The trend IS NOT toward legalizing gay marriage. In fact the trend is strongly against it. It is your very question as to why the trend is strongly against gay marriage as that line of thinking leads to marrying whatever the hell you want. That is wrong. So very, very wrong.
Polygamy, gay marriage, having kids out of wedlock are all the same - they are wrong. Do not allow this behavior or line of thinking.
The facts would disagree with you. In California, for example, proposition 22 was passed in 2000 to define marriage as one man and one woman by 61.4% of the popular vote. Being unconstitutional, and NOT a constitutional amendment, the supreme court in California overturned it. Proposition 8, which is identical to proposition 22 except for the fact that it's an amendment (and NOT subject to the supreme court's decision), just passed with 52.5% of the vote.
In other words, in 8 years, support for making same sex marriage illegal, at least in California, decreased by about 9%. Your claim about the trend against gay marriage is not backed up by the facts, which directly refute what you just said. In fact, based on the current rate of decrease in support, it's a reasonable assumption that if the question of gay marriage is put before Californians again in 2012, they will legalize it. While I'm sure you'll be among the last converts, support for gay marriage is growing, and your opposition to it will be the minority opinion pretty soon.