Republicans scared in not wanting to be seen as too anti-gay

They are scared in coming off as too anti-gay, to more moderate voters. Let me clarify that, Republicans who have to get elected on a state where appealing to anti-gay bigotry won't work, such as for president.

The idea that a little sodomy is a moral good probably doesn't enter into the mind of anyone who has a moral conviction against sodomy. That's strictly a progressive no values PC move and any Republican engaging in such verbal game is RINO. There has been a whole host of Democrats running to the GOP since Obama took office. I'm sure there will be more defectors before Nov. which will make it very difficult for real Republicans getting out the message of conservative values with the pretenders making PC statements just to win as RINO's where they couldn't as Dems.

Um, don't have sex with a gay man. You don't like gay sex, don't have it. There is no moral rationale for homosexual sex to be immoral, it's just a type of sex. Sex between consenting adults.

I don't think for those who hold sodomy as amoral would agree that there is no moral rationale but, then that's the epicenter of the debate isn't it? Those who make no moral distinctions and want sodomy to be seen as an 'equal act' and their fight to have the sodomites blessed by the institutions of the Church through the marriage ceremony.VS. the devout who don't want their institutions and ceremonies corrupted by behavior contrary to their written code, a code believed to come from God.

Come out of the closet, please

Homosexuality is a religious sin, analogous to other Biblical prohibitions, like not eating pork or the carcass of a dead animal, or not sleeping with a woman during her menstrual cycle. The argument from the religious point of view is not specifically anti-homosexual or social equality but, the protection of the sacraments. The religious faithful do not want homosexual behavior codified though the sacrament of marriage. The religious do not believe that the homosexual minority have the right to force themselves and their social sexualization on religious expression. For the religious it is the homosexuals who are victimizing them, demanding religious inclusion when the Holy Books have written denouncements against homosexual acts as sin against man and God. And yes there are religious passages that equate the homosexual act as equal to bestiality. I'm not even religious and I can understand their position. It's really a shame the left can't leave the religious to their institutions and beliefs. I'm sure that homosexuals are creative enough to design their own institutions and this campaign to destroy religion is completely unnecessary and counter productive only fueling mutual hostility.

It's a shame that the left doesn't leave the government to the religious rightwing? Listen, you twit, you don't get to use the civil government as an arm of your religious dogma. YOu want a theocracy, move to Saudi Arabia!