This is another example of the will of citizens be damned -- we'll just do as we want. Beware of the "we"!

How is HIV spread? Certainly, not all have received the virus from tainted needles and tainted blood transfusions. HIV is directly connected to homosexuality so does our judiciary have an obligation to protect the citizenry and do everything in its power to stop the proliferation of HIV?

While we're at it, we need an amendment where the vote of the people overrides judicial diktat. It is absurd that one person can inflict so much damage against the will of the people.

Gay marriage is ridiculous! With this argument a pedophile has the right to a child bride. Ridiculous!

Once again, what the neocommies cannot win in the arena of ideas or at the ballot box they whine and cry and find a "sympathetic" judge.

Personally, while the idea of Gay marriage abhors me, I say let the little cretins open the Pandora's box and make absolutely certain to them in that ALL divorce laws apply just as equally to them. That might give them pause to think...

Mr. Murchison is a great and offensive-to-evil-appetites voice crying in the wilderness, as it were. Awesome. But it is absolutely incumbent on us Patriot Post readers and like minded conservatives to take a cue from one of my U.S. Marines/friends, who literally today, urged those in one of my related political circles to LEARN and STUDY the best of our apologists' arguments (like Mr. Murchison's herein) in order to equip ourselves with more poignant presentations in the market place of ideas. Meaningful cultural amelioration won't happen via preaching to the choir alone; nor will the constant propensity toward misplaced "love" (often at the expense of Truth) in the form of silence, hesitation, self-preservation, so-called tolerance, constitute anything but useless, fruitless, moral timidity on the part of those convinced of The Good.

By the way, the aforementioned Marine was at one time more of the "don't know what to say, let's just be 'fair' and winsome (to the point of insipid lunacy)" type just a couple of years back. Now, his reality based experience and thirst for The Good, for righteousness, combined with old-fashioned courage to speak more eloquently in the faces of promiscuity and sin in general are putting him ever closer to the echelons of today's more effective everyday voices for The Gospel and Goodness.

Imagine our kids having to timorously tiptoe around the horrible doxies of this vengeful and morally reprehensible secularist cabal over the course of the next 50 years. And singing Amazing Disgrace.

Ten million more Mr. Murchisons needed IMMEDIATELY by a once auspicious culture now in derelict decay and obsessed with furtive fantasy: Train up a child, train up a friend, train up yourself. Semper fidelis, indeed, but part of "keeping" the faith is having the courage to protect and spread it.

The argument from Atticus Cage seems to be that Murchison and writers like him are "preaching to the choir" and that nothing of real substance will ever be accomplished until conservative articles like "The Gay Marriage Fantasy" are found in a mainstream venue.

Atticus argues that more writers like Mr. Murchison are needed. Perhaps they are, but if they don't exist then they don't exist.

The solution lies not in creating more conservative writers, but in circulating the writing that exists more broadly. And in attracting more liberal readers to venues like The Patriot Post.

P.S. I also enjoy writing dissenting comments at the Huffington Post, even though most of these are soon removed.

Thank you, Jack, for the responsive comment (posted August 11, 2010 at 10:19:08 AM) to my post (August 10, 2010).

I agree with your expansion of my general point and take to heart your exhortation for capable conservatives to also post more diligently at sites like the Huffington Post.

BTW, do you have evidence that dissenters' comments are indeed removed while their counterparts' are NOT? (The first time I posted there -- and you can imagine how poorly I scored in HP's "plays well with others" metric -- it displayed and stayed for at least a few days but then I never thought to monitor their putative tolerance for so-called dissent in that regard.)

Not only is our political leftist society turned off by Bibles, and so called matters of church and state, they are miraculously adamant in their defense of Islam and the rights to free expression. It is amazing to me that in regards to Judeo-Christian thought the left always cites the

"establishment" clause as a basis for the supposed "separation of church and state". But whenever Islam ( or any other non Judeo-christian faith) is the subject - why then we are supposed to protect the "freedom of speech" guaranteed in this country by our Constitution -- you know ,, that "living document" that we can interpret to mean what we want it to mean - if we have no basis in history or reality.

I have many "gay" friends and acquaintances with whom I have no quarrel. In fact many of them are so "gay" they are almost "ecstatic". In my humble opinion , they are certainly entitled to a "civil union" that will afford them the visitation rights and legal status under the law of man. I am not willing however to extend to them the divine sacrament of matrimony, otherwise known as marriage, that is defined as the union of a man and a women.

I consider myself to be an objective person. I am willing to recognize a human right to free association. I am also willing to extend - with some reluctance - the benefits of a "civil union" to those in homosexual relationships. This is as far as I am willing to go. I am willing to pay taxes that may allow the "spouse" of a gay or ecstatic city employee to receive city benefits. I think that is pretty generous. Let's just make sure that when the "union" breaks up - the benefits stop.

I am not willing to change the definition of Marriage to include homosexual and/or non-humanoid forms of interpersonal relationships.