Last time I consulted an atlas, it is clear we are living in New York, in the United States of America not in China or North Korea.
You have an amazing grasp of the obvious
In those countries, government presumes daily to “redefine” rights, relationships, values, and natural law. There, communiqués from the government can dictate the size of families, who lives and who dies, and what the very definition of "family" and "marriage" means. But, please, not here!
A vote in the state legislature is is not comparable to a dictitorial edict, especially when your only basis for that comparison is the fact thatit's something you don't like or approve of
Our country’s founding principles speak of rights given by God, not invented by government
No they don't. I can only surmise you are speaking of the declaration of independence which is not america's "founding principles", but rather a "dear john" letter to the King of England, and the "creator" mentioned within the declaration bear little or no resembalence to the christian god.
The US Constitution, the sole document that defines the principles of te US does not make so much as a passing mention of any "god" or specific religion, and it speaks of rights granted by the people, rather than anybody's "god".
and certain noble values life, home, family, marriage, children, faith that are protected, not re-defined, by a state presuming omnipotence.
Bullshit. There is neither an explicit definition of marriage, nor a gurantee to protect the aforementioned non-existant definition.
Please, not here! We cherish true freedom, not as the license to do whatever we want, but the liberty to do what we ought;
And just exactly how is denying a group of people you don't like with the very rights that you claim for yourself meet any definition of "true freedon"?
Moreover, who defines what we ought to do? You? The church? Which church? The sheer arrogance that you think anyone can or should be allowed to determine what everyone "ought" to do is astounding.
And, what about other rights, like that of a child to be raised in a family with a mom and a dad?
And that right is enumerated where? I wasn't affored that right growing up, nor were hundreds of thousands of others who lost a parent or grew up in single parent households. And I take personal insult at the inferrence that my childhood was less than adequate because I was not afforded your imagined "right". If a child grows up in a loving home with one two or even four parents, no matter their sexual orientation, it's something to be thankful for. Why can't that be enough?