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I do care about freedom and liberty, that's why I respect the rights of those who disagree with me and recognize the issue as a social issue that, those who disagree with me on, can have their votes heard and put into legal action. People are free to vote on issues, they have the liberty to believe what they want and have the democratic process change laws. Forcing same sex marriage is not a constitutional right, the default definition is that marriage is between a man and woman. The law has to change to accommodate for same sex marriages and have the term of "marriage" be redefined. It's a social issue discussing changing a legal definition, and on such a change people can have their voices heard and their votes cast like with other issues.
"People are free to vote on issues, they have the liberty to believe what they want and have the democratic process change laws."
Yet, just because they engaged in a democratic process doesn't suddenly nullify the fact that they are infringing upon the liberty and freedom of others. Whether it is done by the barrel of a gun or at the ballot box, infringing on liberty and freedom is still just that, infringing on liberty and freedom.
"Forcing same sex marriage is not a constitutional right, the default definition is that marriage is between a man and woman."
Well, that has been changed quite recently with the SCOTUS ruling and that doesn't change the fact that people should still have the freedom to marry whomever they want (given of course it is consensual and everyone is of legal age). Thus, with this most recent SCOTUS ruling, "The law has to change[d] to accommodate for same sex marriages and [has allowed[ the term of 'marriage' [to] be redefined."