Again, I believe in good-faith conversations, sir. I support that very much. However, I don't agree that any conversations have any kind of lack of influence.
When I studied journalism, one of the arguments we had was whether we can actually be objective as journalists. The answer is no. We all have biases. Your question has a bias leading to what you want me to say. That's absolutely fine; you have a right to do that. All we're asking is that we all have a right to do that.
I'm a youth pastor as well. This kind of law.... Let me give you an example.
If a 14-year-old girl in my youth group came to me and said she wanted to have sex with her classmate, I would be able to say as a Christian that we don't support sex before marriage. If her classmate was a female and not a male, this law would prevent me from giving the exact same counsel.
I don't think it's the right of government to tell me what I should be able to teach my youth group when it comes to what our faith teaches.