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Robert Bork ("The Necessary Amendment," First Things, August/September 2004, p. 16) drives this point home in his comments about the effort to legalize homosexual marriage. Bork cites three reasons why "the consequences of homosexual marriage will affect you, your children, and your grandchildren, as well as the morality and health of the society in which you and they live."

I care very little about what the state says or their claims of authority over these matters, but I will warn that anyone who makes any effort for the state to make a particular decision in non-legal matters is becoming a dictator, prideful and arrogant and making an idol of themselves. Recall the incident with the baker being forced to cater to a gay wedding. So we know that we struggle against censorship and waning religious and personal liberty. And we know that defending such rights is important. But if you do the same thing to others yourself, what right do you have to complain when it is done to you? Are you not a hypocrite then? Do to others as you would have them do to you. Therefore if you are going to stand up for your own rights when they are threatened, you can't then go and steal others' as well!