If you want to be Gay and get married that is fine. I can respect a choice to live your lifestyle.
But when it comes to Religious Schools and Hospitals that set their Religious beliefs in their core missions and values, you cannot use the law to disrupt that.
No one makes you go to the Religious school, it is a choice.
When you choose to go there, Respect the rules of the establishment put in place for their beliefs or choose someone else to go.
Excerpt from article, I could not have said it better myself:
But Americans who have decided gay marriage is OK, or at least that it's no one's business that that of the people who want to engage in it, need to really decide how far they think this principle should go. Does your support of gay marriage extend to a belief that anyone asked to participate in a gay wedding must do so, regardless of their own personal belief? Does your support of gay marriage extend to the belief that religious institutions must treat two homosexuals as legitimately married, even if that violates their own statements of faith?
Lee is trying to establish a principle here that says that even if the government wants to grant a certain request to certain individuals, that does not justify burdening other individuals or institutions in such a way that they are required to act in violation of their own moral codes.
In other words, if you want to consider yourself married, and you can find people who are willing to go along with you on that - performing the ceremony, catering it, extending health care benefits to you - then knock yourself out. But no one who is not willing shall be compelled by the state to do so, and that includes institutions as well as individuals. (And contrary to the weird argument liberals make, there is no reason for-profit corporations should not be included in these protections.)
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