Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children's schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism; it is a legal document. It says something and doesn't say other things.