Drinking and foul language are pleasures or emotions of a similar kind to sexual pleasures. They are an excellent comparison, and one that I have repeatedly mentioned.
Foul language is controlled by government very, very loosely, but the use of alcohol (and all other "spirits") are highly regulated or prohibited by government.
Today in the United States, homosexual activity (as far as federal law is concerned) is decriminalized. What SSM proponents demand is nothing short of a redefinition of marriage in order for their behavior to be fully legitimized, as well as to reap the legal benefits of legal marriage.
Alcohol production, sales, and use are all highly regulated.
The potheads are still trying to get the same federal government to simply decriminalize the use of their "pleasure".
This is a problem common to many on your side, Huntster. You focus on the activities and pleasures of sex, over family. It happen all the time on this forum.
Homosexuality, is a misleading word in this regard; I get that. It has “sex” right in it, but I’d hope you, of all people, realize there’s a far greater component to the innate drive to couple up and build a family. There are couples out there, gay and straight, not participating (not anymore or, for some, ever) in any of your imagined “sexual pleasures”, and yet they are deeply in love, building homes, raising kids, and so on.
I, for one, am pretty sure I’d not have my life altered if Laurence V. Texas was overturned. If I were completely selfish, I’d offer that one over for the securities of marriage law. If there’s anything in my life you could compare to alcoholism, it’d be my “addiction” to my family. I guess I’m near a heroin addict, in that regard. But is that an addiction you honestly find offensive? I have a hard time believing you’d object to it as you would alcoholism, or demean it to the level of cursing.
Besides, I think you have to admit; it’s not about “activities”, even to you. You don’t usually treat the sexual orientation gay men have or the often-accompanying activities like alcoholism or cursing. Your very wife and most women have the same sexual orientation that all gay men have, and most men have the same as a lesbian. What offends you most is the anatomy, right? In fact, in most instances I think you treat these instincts like the blessings they are, and would find your comparison to something as deleterious as alcoholism or as silly as cursing as threatening and demeaning to traditional values, marriage, and family, as I do. As I’ve said before, it seems like a kind of “I’ll break it before I let you get it” way of thinking.
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