Sounds legit to me <| sep |> Or maybe you ' re not a sell out gay , after all . Maybe the reality is that you ' re a Believer in Freedom who only happens to be gay , incidentally . I had a gay friend who said , I ' m sick of the pressure to identify myself as a gay who only happens to be human . No , I ' m a human , who only happens to be gay . To my way of thinking , he had it in perspective . Toward that end , let me suggest that being gay is not your defining characteristic . You ' re a freedomloving human being and patriot . And as with Star Trek and its prime directive , your love of freedom won ' t allow you to impose your thoughts or beliefs on others . Hell , we all think it ' s bizarre when Orthodox Jews will airbrush a woman out of a newspaper photo , because they believe in the separation of genders . Or when the Amish don ' t run out to buy the new Xbox . Or when Muslims won ' t eat a delicious bacon sandwich , because it ' s not halal . We ' re all encouraged to be tolerant as hell to these eccentrics . And we are . But when a Christian doesn ' t want to engage in a religious rite i . e . , someone else ' s marriage we ' re suddenly supposed to suspend our belief in the separation of church and state , and demand that the State force people to participate in a religious rite . Any freedomloving patriot acquainted with the First Amendment ' s promises of protection from the government intruding in people ' s religious practices bristles at the suggestion that it ' s the State ' s place to do any of this shit . Footnote First Amendment from 1791 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion , or PROHIBITING the free exercise thereof . Translation Sorry , Leftists . You ' re not allowed to force people to betray their own religious convictions no matter how backward you think they are , nor are you allowed to coerce people to participate in other people ' s religious ceremonies . For the same reason you can ' t legally force a Muslim to eat a pork sandwich , you can ' t force Christians to participate in a gay marriage . And don ' t bullshit about civil rights . Constitutional rights trump civil rights . There are 3 types of rights Constitutional , civil and statutory . Of all three , statutory are the weakest . The statute can be changed at any time . Civil rights are weak , too . The civil code can be changed at the drop of a hat . Jim Crow laws were once in force due to the civil code . Of all three , Constitutional rights are the most rocksolid . And , yes , the CONSTITUTION itself says that you can ' t make laws to interfere with people ' s religious practices . Checkmate , motherfuckers .