Be for gay marriage -- or else

More of your usual Republican fear-mongering and sophistry. You people are nothing more than political hacks towing the Republican cause, right or wrong, come hell or high water. Your commentary, "Be for gay marriage—or else ," has now sunk your credibility level below that of Bill O'Reilly, Shawn Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Michelle Malkin.

If gay activists are making life hard for the religious bigots who bankrolled Prop 8, then I'm glad. Let the members of the Mormon Church know what it feels like to be regarded as second-class citizens in their own home state. Maybe then they will understand what it means to be gay in America. At least gay activists don't bomb abortion clinics or murder people with whom they disagree. It would seem that only radicals from your side of the fence possess this proclivity.

Your reasoning for denying equal marriage rights for loving, committed gay couples doesn't just "sound like sophistry"-- it IS sophistry, of the worst kind. No, gay people do not have the same rights you have because they are not permitted to marry the people they are genetically predisposed to love, and who are genetically predisposed to love them, as you heterosexuals are.

And to state that only those couples capable of procreating deserve marriage status, or "family" status, is absurd. With a population exceeding three hundred million, I sincerely doubt that granting equal marriage rights to gays is going to significantly impact U.S. population numbers.

You end this article with a threat: "Have these crowds ever heard the word “backlash ?” Yes, we have. And like women's suffrage and the civil rights movement, gay people will have more than their fair share of it before all is said and done. My reaction? Bring it on!

The fight for equal civil rights for gay Americans is a just and noble cause, and one for which I intend to fight until my dying day.

To say that everyone has equal rights because we can all marry someone of the opposite sex isn't sophistry, it's specious. It is the same as saying that if there were a law banning ceilings higher than 6 feet, it wouldn't discriminate against tall people, since we would all be equal under the law, to be able to chose the height of our ceiling under 6 feet. And to say that this is an issue where the courts "do not belong" is to say that it is not a legal issue. Marriage laws are not a legal isue? How can any law not be a legal issue? Regarding the 'tradition' argument, tradition holds that voters are male, and slavery is normal. In review: A law that person 'A' can marry a man, but person 'B' can't, is treating them equally; Laws are not a legal issue; and woman suffrage and emancipation are unacceptable because they go against tradition. Did you get paid for this article??