What motivates people to vote other people's rights away

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@Whack-a-Mole

There is a separation between church and state on this.

The pro-SSM crowd is in no way demanding that a given church or mosque or whatever must perform a SSM. It is entirely up to an individual church/whatever to make their own decision on that. If a SS-couple’s church does not perform SSM they can work to change their church’s policy, find another church or go see a judge.

SSM is all about how the government treats SS-couples to make them on par with hetero-couples in a legal sense and all the benefits and responsibilities that entails. Period.

Religion has nothing to do with it.

Indeed it is the separation of church and state that argues most strongly for SSM and to not let religious dogma decide the issue.

A compelling argument to be sure.

But that doesn’t reduce those who feel otherwise as “homophobes”. (although clearly some are)