First up, thanks for your impassioned beliefs Danny. It's always great to hear this coming from our straight friends. I would quibble a bit with the "choice of lifestyle" phrase though . . . . it's a "choice" only in that you can choose to deny what you are and seriously diminish your quality of life. It's the same as saying "heterosexuality is a choice of lifestyle" . . . . nobody seems to look on it that way.
And your "national security" analogy wasn't off the mark, really . . . . perhaps as it relates to gay marriage, but not sexual orientation in general. Since Chicky is big on facts here's the link -
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/US/story?id=2274124
Anybody who doesn't think the U.S. goverment, and specifically this current adminstration isn't hostile to gays isn't doing much fact checking of their own.