Is Christian opposition to gay marriage really about homosexuality?

Your final point makes sense but I would stretch it to "Conservative Christianity as more valid than any other belief system."

Churches will already marry whomever they choose so the argument is about who is allowed to enter into the legally binding contract of marriage with its responsibilities and benefits. I think the wiser choice would be to separate marriage from the church. The government can then allow gay and straight marriages (or unions) while people who choose a church ceremony can do that in whichever church will allow it.

It really could be a little bit (or a healthily large one) of both things, I think.

Just listen to big cat over there.

Obviously, there are many people who think as he does.

Their issue is with homosexuality.

More subtle individuals would probably just think politics, though.

Sounds like a valid point to me, though you should research the whole thing a bit more before you publicize this.

Except marriage isn't a christian institution, it's a legal one. If it was a christian institution, then non christians couldn't get married, and nobody would be required by law to get a license from the courthouse before the ceremony, they would instead be required by law to get permission from christian churches regardless of their own religion.

Gay marriage isn't about forcing conservative christian churches to marry gay people. It is about granting long overdue *secular* civil rights to a hefty portion of the population who have been denied their legal rights for far too long. Churches still have the right to perform the ceremony or not, but the courthouse will have to grant licenses to people regardless of their orientation or gender of their partners.

It's really about what God says is sinful as spelled out in the Bible. Most of the laws in the U.S. are based on the Mosaic code found in the Bible including our freedoms. To attack the foundations of our society and the conservative Christians who created them for you is like biting the hand that gives you your freedom of speech.

I think this debate has more to do with what the Bible says. Are we going to dismiss what the Bible says and call evil good? In my mind that is what the liberal churches are doing.

Opposition to gay marriage is the same as being opposed to bestiality, polygamy and pedophilia. They are all evil and you can whitewash evil, but it is still evil.

I think you're a conspiracy theorists whose ideas are not within the realm of reality.

No, it's just another strategy to force religious nonsense and bigotry into our schools and government.

Its about right and wrong