This has absolutely nothing to do with SSM. These families exist now and will continue to do so. THey have done so in the face of public abuse and legal discrimination. Gay families HAVE BEEN and will continue to be part of American society. They arent going anywhere.
However you CHOOSE to deny them the same benefits and legal protections that are accorded to straight couples and families. And can prove zero harm why you believe that's acceptable? blech, you make me ashamed to be a Christian. Many of these protections extend to their children.
We cannot do anything about what harm, in a free society, people may legally do to others... such as these SS families you speak in such high regard. There are also hetero couples who should not have children and we cannot prevent that either, in such a free society.
We are tolerant, perhaps often too tolerant in allowing people such legal means to hurt others, especially children. As a society, we have not figured that one out yet. A free society cannot stop all harm before it is done, it can only hope to limit that harm and work at eliminating it, if possible. Surely we DO NOT want to compound the ongoing harm.
Sorry, it was not ME alone who chooses to deny SS folk anything that they deserve. First of all, they do not deserve what you say they do, and it is our system that makes those decisions, not myself as a individual. And our society is fully within its rights to make its own rules... I know that concept seems a bit beyond you, and many others here, at times. If you read the posts in this thread, there is, and I have so indicated, harm... that this is a part of an ongoing weakening, by the liberal ideology performed through liberal policy, of many, if not all, of the solid institutions developed by a great nation for itself to preserve for its posterity...I spend a great deal of time, and have done so a large part of my life, studying history, with a growing understanding of many of its lessons.
I would say many here have rather little understanding, besides what a media driven frenzy [ ever wonder how/why that happened?] has craftily ill -informed, of just what it is, as well as the damage incurred, that you and folks that think similarly to you on this and other topics are doing to the foundations of our society. You can't see it? Study some history and remove the rose colored glasses, perhaps.
And...
You may have plenty to be ashamed of with regards to your professed Christianity without my, a non-believer in that faith, assistance. With what you express here, you seem to have removed any doubts about it.
Oh, and as a courtesy, might you keep your bodily malfunctions to yourself when posting to me in the future, please? Certainly not classy and hardly proves persuasive to folks with those higher standards that you are, presumably, hoping to convert.