[TheRealThing]

"The Church" certainly is free in this nation to proclaim what it believes. What it is not free to do is to dictate to the State what rights the civil authority may grant and which ones they must not recognize. That isn't liberal, friend. That's Constitutional democracy. Of course, "the Church" may compete in the markstplace of ideas and images for the hearts and minds of people. Nobody is dictating to you that you must embrace gay marriage as not sinful. But, you wish, not simply to proclaim that it is sinful, but to encode its denial to citizens so inclined, and, thereby, violate essential liberty.

Actually like all libs, you try and hitch the cart in front of the horse. God had already declared homosexual behavior a signpost sin for any society long before the great flood, much less the example He made of Sodom and Gomorrah. It is the state which has usurped the law of the Highest in declaring the acts of homosexuals an acceptable alternative to the natural example of Adam and Eve. As I said, you are forever defending the indefensible.