I'm not sure how to start this so I'm just going to jump straight into my argument. If you are a Christian reading this: why would you want to take away your own God-given rights? Even the founding fathers made it very clear that we were endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights. Of course they failed to mention hot topics of the future that they could not have predicted but that's not the point. The Constitution is vague for a reason, because it can all be narrowed down to the fact that we as people are given free will to decide our own fates and the government should not take away our rights to choose our paths. According to social contract theory the government does take away some of our rights in order to function and help us to prosper, but not our basic civil rights, and certainly not without our permission.
So you don't understand homosexuality, so you think abortion is immoral: what gives you the right to say no one should be able to have the choice to decide what they want to do with their own life and body? For the sake of argument let's say these things are sinful. Let's say Jesus himself took an elevator down from heaven to specifically tell us not to smoke marijuana for example. Okay now it's officially a sin for a Christian to partake in smoking marijuana. This changes nothing legally. If the Christian bible didn't make such a big stink about free will and salvation through faith maybe I'd understand, but it does. The entire basis of the Christian faith is free will. If we didn't have free will, none of us would do anything wrong anyway because we wouldn't be allowed to. By supporting laws that step on the toes of our free will we are in a way being anti-Christian.
Taking away someone's choice to do something is not a Christian value, it's a narrow-minded and tyrannical idea. I would never advocate supporting something that your heart does not agree with and therefore I would never dream of saying that it is wrong to have an opinion that is unlikeable or controversial. It doesn't make a person evil to be on any side of any issue. My argument is purely that attempting to control another person's life is not a Christian ideal.
We are not held to standards under the Hebrew laws as Christians because we receive salvation through faith and love. Laws do not save people, love does. I know it sounds corny but it's true. You don't listen to your parents because they make rules for you, you listen to them because you love and respect them enough to do so. Unless you have parents who give you zero freedom and therefore take away your free will, this is the case. We don't call God "the father" for nothing. We were given the freedom to make our own choices and we decide based on our consciences (as Paul would argue, this is the law inside of us) and on the teachings of our parents and the people around us.
If you believe in an issue with your heart I hope you continue to support it. All people have the right to be opinionated, and some people might say that's the best thing you can be. Go debate with people, go convince them, go be an example, go use your intelligence, go help someone, but whatever you do, don't try to take away their free will. It hurts me to see the way Christians are portrayed these days but what hurts me the most is that they bring it upon themselves. No one wants to join a group that won't accept their opinions or be open to new ways of life. Our duty as Christians is to spread the love and good news isn't it? Why are we making our jobs harder by being the fascists of the new age? The saddest part is that all of this goes against the very core of Christian ideals. Free will and love: these are our greatest gifts and our best tools; don't fight against them.
