@hawkeye10,
Quote:Secondly, there are other things in civilization that are important other than human rights, and Human rights are in the eye of the beholder
LOL, how do I just know that you are a white Christian heterosexual male?
Maybe because sitting on the top the mountain top it is so easy to look down and feel that human rights are not all that important to the society.
If you were a Jew, a Mexican, a black man, a woman, or a homosexual somehow I do not think you would be posting the above.
Sorry my silly friend but the larger the percent of the population that are stake holders in any society the more stability that society is and I know you do not belief this but this is not a zero sum game.
Granting the same rights to others that you happen to enjoy by birthrights does not in any way or a in any manner cost you anything at all.
Love your buzzword “social engineering” that you got from some right wing website or Fox network but in the end, you are harming yourself and your family and your country.
By denialings gays, the right to serve their country on the battlefield you are just harming the very country you are pretending to care for.
Why should any group in this society care or be loyal to a country that demeans them in the manner you wish to keep doing to gays?
That is in added to the fact that someday the life or death of one of your family members might turn of whether the best person is covering his back, be that person white, black, straight or gay, Jewish , female or even a Muslim.