Homosexuals already have the right to live as they please in the privacy of their own homes. What rights are they seeking? They seek the right to force us as a nation to change what we view as moral and conscionable in marriage.

Now, I am all for personal rights. However, rights once they enter the public domain and begin affecting others become questionable as to whether or not they should be rights. A person's right to throw a punch should stop where another's nose begins.

For example, you have a right to look at dirty magazines, but you don't have a right to show them to someone else's kids. You have a right to hit a punching bag, but you don't have a right to hit someone else. You have a right to freedom of speech, but you can't go around swearing at others in public.

Once something so enters the public domain it affects everyone and thus should be questioned. Should we so redefine marriage? It is not us who have targeted homosexuals, but they who are seeking to change our nation's age-old definition of marriage.

I will say this: the homosexual lifestyle is not the only thing condemned sexually in the Bible. Bestiality, premarital sex, adultery, divorce... all are condemned in the Bible. I don't believe in singling out homosexuals but want to see the "irreconcilable differences" stuff eliminated from courts so that marriage can actually mean something once again. I also believe steps should be taken so school-children can't happen across pornography on school computers.

I don't believe, however, in regulating people's personal lifestyles. That's not the reason I oppose homosexual marriage. God gave everyone free will, who am I to take theirs away? I only believe in regulating the actions of others once their actions infringe upon the rights of others. I oppose homosexual marriage on the grounds that it seeks to force the entire nation to change the definition of marriage and morality.

I personally disagree with that definition, so I will vote accordingly. If you agree with it, I fully expect you to vote accordingly. I'm not trying to persuade anyone here that homosexuality is wrong, but rather saying why I oppose homosexuality and asserting my right, like yours, to vote according to the dictates of my conscience.