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And Professor Robert George, a Princeton University constitutional scholar and co-founder of the Religious Coalition for Marriage, points to another danger to be avoided. In a recent Associated Press interview, he noted that if homosexual marriage is legalized, individuals who believe in traditional marriage could be treated as bigots and their religious views on homosexual marriage could be subject to attack -- and possibly even prosecution.

"Marriage is between a man and a woman, and only one of each," George contends. "If that is legally now defined as a prejudicial view -- a form of discrimination, a form of bigotry -- then it will be attacked by the law in the same way that racial bigotry is attacked in the law now," he says.

Also, the professor adds, "If we go down the route of same-sex marriage, that will be what is taught to children in schools against their parents' wishes." Schools will teach children to accept and support homosexual marriage, he explains, "even if their parents are strong believers in the traditional, conjugal conception, whether they are Protestants, Catholics, observant Jews."

A diverse community of traditional marriage supporters could be affected if the push to legalize same-sex marriage succeeds, George asserts. The Religious Coalition for Marriage alone includes members of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Pentecostal Church of God in Christ, the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church, and the Orthodox Jewish community.

Americans who support traditional marriage, including countless people of faith like those represented by the Religious Coalition for Marriage, may be forced to accept homosexual marriage regardless of their religious beliefs, Professor George warns, unless the U.S. Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage.

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