Is it bigoted to uphold actual marriage and refuse to honor counterfeit “marriages”?
It’s not bigotry. Would you treat counterfeit money the same as actual money? Of course not. The government creates the money and has the authority to determine its value. Unfortunately, some people try to find a short cut to wealth. The institution of marriage was created by God; therefore, He is the authority over it. Unfortunately, some people try to find a short cut to a respectable (or at least, accepted) lifestyle. Long before we were born, God set the rules and boundaries of what marriage is supposed to be. We either honor that or we practice intolerance by calling His people “gay bashers” and “bigots.” I am not the judge of homosexuals and their lifestyles. If, however, they want to be together in a way similar to that of a husband and wife, then call their union something other than marriage, otherwise they are being intolerant, disrespectful and degrading of something my forefathers and I hold dear. That, ironically, is exactly what they accuse heterosexuals of doing to them.