Why is endorsing gay marriage/civil unions bad?

[RevDWW]

Originally Posted by jfrog

Yall keep on repeating yourselves. It's not enough to loudly shout repitevely that gay marriage legitmizes homosexuality. How does it go from legitimizing homosexual marriage to legitimizing homosexuality? There's a step missing there.

I think that not having laws banning homosexuality gives legitimacy to homosexuality. Giving homosexuals the right to marry or have civil unions only gives legiimacy to such marriages and not the lifestyle itself.

Gay marriage is not separate from the gay lifestyle. No gay lifestyle no need for gay marriage.

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by RevDWW

Gay marriage is not separate from the gay lifestyle. No gay lifestyle no need for gay marriage.

The bolded tells us nothing about whether supporting gay marriage is supporting homosexuality. It does tell us that those who support homosexuality will support gay marriage/civil unions but it does not tell us the other way around.

To look at whether supporting gay marriage is supporting homosexuality then we need to say something like: if there is not gay marriage then homosexuality still exists. But this simple true statement defeats your assumption. Why? Because if homosexuality exists with or without gay marriage then supporting gay marriage does not cause one to support homosexuality.