But still, there are so many things that concern me [about normalizing/legalizing gay marriage]. What effects will this have on children growing up in the coming decades? Is gay-ness purely a matter of genetics or is it often a choice, or a matter of early learned/mimicked behaviors? I don't know, and I doubt the ivory-tower eggheads know either, but it worries me.
Will activists insist that schools teach second-graders that gay marriage is normal and acceptible and fine and that anyone who says otherwise is a bigot? Even if the kid's parents are opposed on religious grounds? We seem to be headed that way already.
I really do worry that setting the precedent, the principle, of radically altering a traditional institution like marriage (that is in enough trouble already!) for the sake of the 1% to maybe 7% of the population that might want to do that, could open the door to lawsuits/legislation by forty-dozen different special intrests/fetishists/etc GAWD KNOWS WHATALL suing to have marriage redefined to accomodate their special circumstance. Our culture is so damn "diverse" already that we can barely stay together as a nation...way too many "ism's"... I don't know if we can handle much more shaking up of the foundational institutions of our society. Honestly, it worries me.
As someone who leans libertarian, I am tempted to say "do your thing, I'll do mine; respect my space and we're cool."
However, I'm enough of a conservative to wonder and worry about the overall, long-term effects on society, including the Law of Unintended Consequences, of so radically changing a traditional institution that has long been the main building-block of society.