Same Sex Marriage

    There is a problem with people who try to tell others they are wrong, and all they have to convince their opponent is their religion.  There has been no valid evidence presented that suggests that homosexuality is bad for either the individuals who engage in homosexual activity or for a society that accepts them.  The Defense of Marriage act is invalid on those grounds and because it is the only amendment to the Constitution that takes away a right rather than protecting one, which was what the Bill of Rights and its Amendments were created for.  It is anti-American, and an insult to the ideals for which this country claims to stand for, namely Freedom and Equality.  That, by itself should be grounds for its removal, but the fact that it expresses a religious moral value in legal terms also goes against the concept of the Separation of Church and State.  Marriage is a legal contract.  It cannot be considered religious in nature because religious acceptance is not required for a marriage to be legally binding.  Absent any religious objection to same-sex marriage, no other argument seems to have merit, and anyway the government cannot on the one hand say that homosexual behavior is legal and then say that same-sex marriage is not.  It has nothing to do with homosexuality being morally acceptable behavior.  It is about the government trying to put the force of law behind two mutually exclusive things.