Well, I do also care about the integrity of marriage. And I don't want Catholic orphanages forced to adopt out to gays or Catholic or other religious schools forced to hire either gay or openly adulterous teachers.

Frankly, though, I think no-fault divorce has been a lot worse for the country (and for the integrity of marriage) than gay marriage ever will be, simply because it affects vastly more people.

My barber is gay and MAGA as F!

Some are, but Trump has shown them the obvious: you can't run a party and campaign on that alone. The GOP was waiting for another Ronald Reagan when they should have realized that not only was such a candidate nowhere to be found, but that it just didn't attract the electorate in like it used to.

Trump upgraded the game. Added LGBT, minority outreach, and union workers. Suddenly he's taking the "blue vote guarantees" away from the DNC. Despite not getting another Reagan, we got something similar: an ex-Democrat.

The problem with a lot of the Christian conservatives in the GOP is they were neither. They were uniparty establishment all the way. The fact is, Trump has done more for Christian conservatives than all the christian conservative establishment politicians in my lifetime. Trump's presidency put a lie to what I had heard so often in GOP circles, that is, "if we only got rid of all these Christians, and focused on economics, we'd win every election" and that was the start of the GOP establishment's betrayal. I don't like the word marriage for same sex unions and would prefer everything of that nature (including heterosexual legal marriages) be called civil unions but we are where we are. That being said, my concern about legalizing it had nothing to do with denying LGBTQIA+ rights. It had entirely to do with the way I thought LGBTQIA+ activists would seek out Christians who disagreed and try to hurt them any way they could and immediately move into schools to push an agenda. Oh and I was right by the way. LGBTQIA+ activists went on a lawsuit spree targeting as many Christians as they could and dissenting from transgender gender queer ideology in any public space including schools, has become an anathema. So don't give any of this "oh Christians are so mean to us" (I am not denying that some christians are total jerks), but the problem is most certainly the other way around and has been for a while now.

It was never the Christian conservatives, that was a boogeyman invented by the left. it was the fundamentalist nutbags; the Jerry Fucking Falwells.

Yeah, it's gotten so much better now. They stopped saying things that hurt feefees and started selling out America instead!

EDIT hello downvoters, have you met the GOP? Romney? McStain? Did you see the shit they pulled with the debates and the moderators they agreed to? Apart from about five people other than Trump the GOP is just as much sellouts as the Dems and you know it.

I believe in what the Bible says regarding the act of homosexuality being sexually immoral (Not the desire/attraction or temptation. Jesus was tempted, so temptation is not the same thing as acting on it). However, so is adultery, fornication, etc. and it irks me when ppl try to elevate homosexuality as a "worse" sin. Sin is sin and it all causes separation between us and God. I have my own struggles, temptations, and shortcomings, and sexual purity is VERY difficult in our current world. Ultimately, I don't believe in judging anyone else because I don't know their life, what their relationship with God is or isn't, or what their personal beliefs are. So I hold what the Bible says as applicable to me. God says not to commit adultery, so I don't. He says not to lay with a woman the way a man lays with her, so I don't, but I am FAR from perfect. I do my best, but I fall short every day, but Jesus is my savior and His mercy and grace is sufficient. I hope I explained that well enough and didn't hurt anyone's feelings. I really do just look at it as what God wants for ME, and I follow His teachings and commandments out of my faithfulness to Him, but the greatest two commandments are to love God and to love one another. So I do my best to show love, kindness and compassion and not judgment. "Let He who is without sin cast the first stone."

I just realized I never answered your question about gay marriage. I actually don't like that the government has anything to do with marriage at all. Signing a piece of paper did not make me married. Taking vows before God and witnesses and later physically consummating our union is what made my husband and I married. If the government isn't involved at all, then everyone is free to do whatever they want with whatever ceremony they want and the whole debate is moot. And for me that goes back to we live in America and consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want to do. Same with plural marriage. If everyone is a consenting adult, I don't see the problem from a free society point of view. Child brides/adults being forced into that life is a whole other matter.

“You can do whatever you feel”

A lot of people care about degeneracy and the molestation of young people.