On the one hand you want to cease personal insults, on the other hand, you're begging for them. I see.
I get that, but why should it be a law that affects the entire state/country? In a land of religious freedom, why should your beliefs determine whether or not a couple can get married?
When one has a religious belief regarding an issue of morality, one generally believes that to be an issue of "right and wrong". Therefore, one will generally be of the opinion that society as a whole will be better off if that thing that is wrong is not permitted, thus leading to the belief that legalization of that thing is "unfortunate". He's not advocating for his beliefs to be the basis for law, but he's saying it's unfortunate when the laws conflict with his beliefs. It's a fine line, but I can see the difference.
It's a change of definition. Civil unions are the purview of government and weddings are the responsibility of religious organizations. If the Episcopalian Church wants to marry gay people, then they can get married as Episcopalians. If a heterosexual couple doesn't want the imprimatur of a religion, then they have a civil union.
I don't like people who pick and chose what they believe should be against the law/immoral/whatever, from the bible. there's a lot of crazy shit in there, just cherry picking a few seems disingenuous.
