Are Christian American Extremist the reason it took Same sex marriage so long to be legalized in the U.S?

[Zappykins]

scat398 said:

spurgeonryan said:

I can think of no other reason. We are a country based on freedom of everything, yet this was a huge fight for years!

Just let people do what they want. Who cares? Except for a certain group of Americans who think they are judge and jury and can do what they want. Looky, looky! Americans showed them what is up yet again!

Part of the problem with your title is the word extremist being associated with Christians, that is liberal hate speech.  But Christians do have a problem with same sex marriage and its not extreme to for them to have that belief.  The idea that a society works best under certain conditions is not an extreme point of view.  

I personally don't believe that gay marriage should be illegal but I won't condem those that believe otherwise because for literally hundreds of years marriage between man and woman has helped build great societies.  Now if happily married gay couples can contribute to that greatness we will have to see.  Will they adopt children in need of parents as research shows children with two parents do much better than single parent children.  And when their children go to school and find their teacher is talking to them about transgender and sexuality in k-5 schools will they speak out against it because kids that age have no business discussing this issues.  

The truth is the gay community has been clawing and scratching to be a part of something that when they finally get it may realize its a lot harder than they thought.  But hey maybe it will bring some of the gay community around to a more conservative point of view once they realize that liberals don't really care about them and their life, and to liberals the gay community is just another project to change and then leave in ruin.

Ok, if you don't want to use extremist, how about Radical?  Like a Radical Muslim or a Radical Christian.  In this case the Radical Christians are a small group in the USA who want to control and govern others by blending their (often changing) beliefs with the USA's legal system.  They seem to be a hold over of some of the angry Puritans and the once that forced slavery on the USA.  Currently, they have been trying to get their for of religious creation taught as science in the USA.

This whole fake argument from the 'religious rite' about 'traditional marriage, is just a term they made up in a focus group.  Marriage has not been defined as a 'one man and one woman' until very recently - and that very much changes by culture.  Just like people didn't often get married for love until relatively recently.  If you want at the Christian Tradition then marriage is a way to treat a woman you raped, something that happens to you if you other brother dies, women are considered property - and in the Bible the have marriage between siblings, multiple wives, etc.

Do you really believe that " gay community has been clawing and scratching" ?  They just want the same civil rights afforded other couples.  And by the way, in places where two men can get married, have have half the divorce rate of a man-woman marriage over the same time.