In reply to John.

John,

Huge difference between slavery and gay marriage and polygamy, there are no civil victims in gay marriage or polygamy assuming all parties enters consensually and willingly. In slavery there is a clear victim and a clear oppressor.

I believe it is immoral to gamble and I don’t gamble, yet I don’t advocate for gambling to be illegal…in fact I usually advocate for anti-gambling laws to be liberalized. I feel the same with over consumption of alcohol, recreational use of drugs, permissive divorce laws, birth control, and many other “moral” laws.

Victimless “crimes” are best enforced by religious institutions not civil law. I believe that homosexuality, divorce, gambling, and altering ones conscious with drugs or alcohol are all immoral and to best to fight that immorality is to invite people to church with me and involve them in the Missouri Synod Faith. BTW I do believe that the use of birth control is moral, and would be furious if the religious faiths that believe otherwise were to ban its use.

So yes – If you don’t believe in gay marriage don’t enter in to a gay marriage. If you don’t believe in polygamy don’t enter into a polygamist marriage. If you don’t believe in gambling don’t gamble. If you don’t believe in divorce don’t get divorced…If someone believes that slavery is moral and they kidnap me and sell me to exploit me against my will, strip me of my human rights and dignity for their pleasure or profit that should be illegal, even if their “religion” believes that such action is moral.