Toddler sings "Aint no homo gonna make it to heaven." Church crowd cheers

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One side wanting to be accorded the same treatment as everyone else - another side spreading vitriol about hellfire and damnation, demonising their targets as subhuman beasts, teaching impressionable children to hate an entire section of society...

Well, it sports a political side to it. People vote according to it.
I think it's a naturally exploitable thing.
Besides, it's not really a matter of religion, faith or hellfire. It's not a matter of hating a "section", how it came to be like that, is also a subject of debate.
It's a matter of preserving social order.
Obviously, the opposing side can provide legitimate secular arguments.
If this ends in a middle-way that everyone could agree on, I think none of these would happen at all. Every action sparks a reaction.
The side of the homosexuals is a side that is not on the side of the institutions that have spawned marriage, it's obvious that they are not entitled to change it.
If you want change, you need these people. Best to tell them that you want to strike a middle path.

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Or, you(or the homosexuals) need to produce the majority of scientists, politicians, artists, artisans, technicians, engineers, lawmakers, lawyers, judges and etc. in all, everything that is really relevant to society.
Most of these people are not really that sympathetic to homosexuals. Most, I think, generally would like to steer away from them, even though they might not take a side in political terms, I'm not sure how they will react to it when they learn that homosexuals have been put into a special category by law, and are now offically recognized minorities, who might in the future, lay claim to rights that are exclusive to minorities.
In my eyes, homosexuals do not constitute a real minority.
Not in America, nor anywhere, where they have not been considered historically, as minorities, such as in India, where they still do not have any governmentally secured social status as homosexuals.