I can't believe that this topic has me posting here again, but here we go...
My dollar after taxes (2 cents for those of you in Cass Lake):
Tolerance is not equal to approval.
I believe that people have the moral right to decide what they're going to do with their sexual orientation, providing they are not actively harming themselves or others. A homosexual should have every right to engage in homosexual activity if that's what they want to do, assuming the following:
Right time (partner not unconscious or passed out etc)
Right person (Of age, consenting adult who is not being threatened or coerced)
Right Place (No PDA, which is not an anti-homosexual thing, straights who act like animals in heat gross me out just as much) and this is my biggest peeve w/ "pride" parades
Right circumstances
But I absolutely refuse to give my approval to the same actions, and that is equally my own right.
If I have a say in a society, like, say, a representative republic (civics anyone?) then I have the same right to express myself and have my voice heard as anyone else.
Even IF my beliefs are born of religious belief, that makes them no less valid than an athiests, and no more so, as far as a representative government should be concerned.
So I will support people's right to choose how they act on their desires, but I will not condone it. As such, I will not extend the implicit approval in legalizing gay marriage.