Better to get government out of the regulation of marriage entirely. They started this whole mess when they began requiring marriage licenses in the Deep South in order to prevent inter-racial marriage. Then counties across the nation began requiring them (licenses) as a revenue source. Leave marriage to religion where it has always been.

You are correct in that bigotry doesn't stem from laws. It is a mindset in those who think that some arbitrary characteristic makes them inherently superior to other human beings. It is 100% a learned behavior.

Bigotry would already be dead if it weren't for Democrats. Who have been the race-baiters? Democrats like Al Sharption and Jesse Jackson. Who opposed the '63 and '64 bills making inequality in public accommodations illlegal? Democrats. Who has been supportive of the destructive race riots and BLM? Democrats. Heck, we can go back to the times immediately following the Civil War and who supported the KKK? Democrats.

The only way we'll ever really be rid of bigotry is when there are no more Democratic Politicians.

"so much free time they can consider such stupidity"
It's not free time. I think getting people fired up about nothing is part of the job, if they want to stay in office. I avoid jobs with lots of politics. People who go into politics are the opposite from me.

Bigotry is dying. I don't think it flow from laws though.

"the next logical step is to declare they have a "right" to experience their inherent sexuality,"
I think this is the slippery slope fallacy.

Also, I don't see the trend going toward kids having more rights to make decisions for themselves. It seems like we're considering people incompetent to do things for themselves at older ages. I have the unpopular belief that once people develop formal operations, usually as teenagers, they soon get an urge to set out on their own and make their own decisions. I think our society is wrong to consider them children, not able to make decisions, not supposed to work, not accountable for the agreements or their crimes. That doesn't mean I want my kids to leave home at 16, but I want to start respecting them as people becoming responsible for their own lives. I have warned them at early as age 7 and 9 that there are some troubled people who want kids to be their b/f or g/f, that this is unhealthy, and that I want them to tell me if they ever sense that from someone. But in a few years, when they're 15 and 17, ages when historically people got married or went to war; they really have to start taking responsibility for their actions.

I guess all this means people might see me as normalizing pedophilia. It's not directly related to my respect for others as individual without regard to gender.

Why are you special because your DNA and hormones are backward?

We are given equality by the Constitution. It is up to us to maintain it, demand it, and earn it. You are not better or worse for being LBGT, Black, green, or mixed gender, you are still rated on your own accomplishments, not by the loudness of your whine. Stupidity is my one prejudice, it is so much a choice, and a bad one.

I largely agree, but until the 13th, 15th and the 19th Amendments, it didn't work for blacks and women.

The problem here is less about LGBT rights, but more about "special" rights afforded married. Eliminate the institutionalized special rights of marriage, let it be the contract that it is, and this all goes away.

This preposterous idea shouldn't be choked down by honest liberals, as it makes biological women second class citizens, flying in the face of all past efforts to give women equal footing on many fronts.

As more of these discomfiting efforts to normalize sexually related mental disorders come to light, I can't help but feel there's a motivation behind it to normalize pedophelia. We're already seeing discussion of how it's a disease, and the "victims" shouldn't be considered criminals. If you think about it, if the argument that minors have a right to make life altering decisions about their sex, the next logical step is to declare they have a "right" to experience their inherent sexuality, including having sex with adults.

I think that actually there is a contingent of politicians - hard-core leftists - who absolutely do want this to pass. They WANT to be able to force this nonsense on the public - or at least try. But remember, it took them a decade to get homosexuals in the military. Or gay "marriage." Or any number of other leftist policies. This is the opening salvo, but don't expect it to go away. It will get tabled or defeated this go-around but it will be back after the next election (which Democrats will fraudulently win again).

All the more reason for term limits.

I wonder that our legislators have so much free time they can consider such stupidity. These people need to get a life.

I don;t think we need any Equality Act to define us. The Constitution did that.