God. Real. Right.

This short post appeals implicitly to the arguments of earlier posts, here and here.
Recent protests around the country reveal something interesting about homosexual values—homosexual axiology. The pronounced premise of the homosexual agenda is a desire for equality. But the concept of equality is far too vague to be valued in and of itself. No one, for instance, believes a victim of rape and a rapist should receive equal consequences for the event which defines them in this example. Such equality would be repugnant to every appreciable set of values. That kind of distinction is what makes equality of opportunity different from equality of distribution, by the way.
But for this point, the equality proposed by those pushing the homosexual agenda is supposed to be about civil rights. But such a claim can only be defended meaningfully if the “right” is rooted in a real “value”, in this case the equal worth of every person (life) and the equal autonomy which ought to be afforded them (liberty). In an abstract, theoretical, ivory-tower kind-of-way, the argument is made that depriving homosexuals of the “right” to marry is depriving them of what should be theirs because they are of equal worth as human beings and ought to have equal liberties. But it is a purely theoretical proposition. In reality (as the two posts referred at the top of this page argue) it is based in no such thing, but rather in a worldview which inherently dismisses, even if unintentionally, (and that acknowledgment is an important one) the very equality supposedly being defended. Why? Because real equality of worth is actually only appreciated when it is based in the recognition that worth is not about being the same as others, but being different from them, a concept factually (and certainly biblically) created in people by the institution of hetero (other) - sexual marriage. Only if “others” share the “same” value can that value be universal.
For those who find this argument too abstract to have any basis in reality, the virulent, hateful, and sometimes physically violent protests of the past few days should provide sufficient empirical evidence that it is, as a matter of fact, perfectly sound.
It would be very odd, otherwise, that people who believe homosexuality is wrong love homosexuals all the while advocating lawfully and peacefully against homosexual marriage, while people who profess to believe that all people should be treated “equally” are treating people other than themselves with anything but equality of worth (hence the video above).
As a side note, those who appreciate this biblical point about worth and equality should also realize that hateful and demeaning behavior toward homosexuals or anyone else whose behavior is wrong or wrong-headed flies in the face of the only values which can justify a defensible stance against wrongdoing.