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Popa, as a Jew, you ask for freedoms. You ask that people allow you to live your life as you believe possible. You ask society to not discriminate against you when you apply for a job. Based on a life choice that you make (yes, being an Orthodox Jew is a choice, one we believe we are required to follow but the general population doesn’t).
When you ask for freedom, you should make sure that you aren’t being an obstacle to other people’s freedoms.
Denying two people legal rights of partnership solely based on their gender should be illegal. Whether or not I think its immoral.
We don’t legislate morality – if we did, we would force veganism on everyone because PETA says so.
Remember – allow gay marriage is NOT saying that the acts forbidden in the Torah are ok. Its saying that two men or two women can create a contract that affords them the rights of inheritence, the right of acting as next of kin in terms of medical issues etc. Its just a legal contract.
My preference is actually for government to get out of the marriage business. But that’s a different story.