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I would expect most people will vote NO to this. However, I want to remind you of something you may have forgotten.

Growing up, young children will choose playmates based on gender, girls want to play with other girls, and boys want to play with other boys. Seldom do they cross gender boundaries. As parents, we didn't teach them these things, it just happens. It is as if they came "pre-wired" that way.

However, at some point, girls become interested in boys, and boys become interested in girls. Again, it just happens. They weren't taught at home "Today, you will become interested in the opposite sex." For some parents, that time comes too soon. It happens to most kids somewhere around the onset of puberty. Can you remember the date that important event happened to you? I certainly can't remember when it happened to me.

However, for a small fraction of children, that interest doesn't change. They didn't make a conscious decision, it just never came for them. Can they change? From what I have read, very few ever change and stay with the decision. Instead, most will hide their feelings, for fear of rejection and ridicule from others. Some will even marry opposite sex partners, and have children, both in an attempt to change and to hide. Percentages say some of your friends are "gay" and you will never know it.

I personally don't feel I have any right to say who marries or partners with whom. It is none of my business. Just because they don't act like me does not give me the right to say they should not have the same rights as me. I, for one, am just not that arrogant. They have lived on this planet for thousands of years, and will for thousands more. During my time on the planet, I have never been accosted by a gay person, ever. However, some of our straight citizens have been known to go out and "roll a few queers." That means they beat them up and robbed them.

All I am asking is a little thought before making a decision on this issue. It may some day become important to you as a parent. You may discover you have a gay child.  Will you love them any less?  Vice President Cheney didn't raise his daughter to be gay, it just happened. She is still his daughter, he still loves her, and unfortunately, he has had accept a lot of unwarranted personal abuse from others because of it.

Is it wrong? I will leave that question for God. He didn't appoint me to take His place today.

Why does a sexual behavior require legal recognition?  Scripture is clear that homosexuality is a sin; you don't have to be God to know His feelings on this one.  But believers are commanded to love one another, not judge one another.  It is not our place to treat any other person badly because we feel his or her behavior to be sinful - we all have sin of one degree or another in our lives.

I have had plenty of exposure to this lifestyle.  I currently know many homosexuals and same-sex couples in this area and treat them no different than straight people, with respect and dignity.   I actually respect and enjoy the company of many types of people, who I imagine make decisions to live their lives in ways I would not choose for myself or my family.  It's not my business. 

I do not agree, however, with the media and pop-culture labeling behavioral choices as "genetic" or a "disease."  This is an insidious way to make it "okay" to make these choices.  I mean, after all, if you (and your kids) see it every day on TV and movies,and are told you really have no choice in sexual orientation, it must be okay, right?  So, if homosexuality is "just the way you are," how can it be a sin?  Yes, men can be more feminine, and women more masculine; either could possibly find the opposite sex less than attractive.  Does that mean choosing the same sex is acceptable?

It's naturally obvious that man and woman were made to mate, reproduce, complement one another, whatever you want to call it.  Same sex parts just don't produce the same results. Children were meant to be raised by a male parent AND a female parent.  Homosexual relaitonships should not be given the same status as holy matrimony between a man and woman, which should be protected on many fronts.  So why do I care if city employees can get insurance for same-sex partners?  Because it gives more credibility to homosexuality and equal status as heterosexual marriage.  It makes it more mainstream, more acceptable, more "normal."  It makes it easier and easier for our kids to choose homosexuality because it's all the rage, and hey - it's just the way I am.  Propaganda!

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.