Originally Posted by usgrant7

Every culture has two competing forces in play, individual rights and the common good. If a culture firmly believes that enacting laws which encourage marriage between a man and a woman foster good, healthy cultural norms then I see nothing wrong with that. There is nothing stopping businesses from extending benefits they provide to married couples, to unmarried couples. There is nothing stopping two citizens from entering into a contract. There is nothing stopping homosexuals from lobbying their elected officials to enact laws recognizing those cotracts under the equal protection laws.

So why hasn’t' domestic partnership or gay marriage advanced as rapidly as one might expect?

Because deeeeep down inside, every man and woman knows that homosexuality is an aberrant behavior choice. And if we widen the definition of marriage to include boys and boys, girls and girls, men and objects, women and animals... Pretty soon there is no foundation for our society. Only the promise that "this time" it wont get out of hand.

Marriage is to be between a man and a woman. Period. End of story. Setting all the Bible verses I could quote, aside, the biggest reason for not accepting gay marriage is because it lends itself to a slippery slope, towards permissivism.. Marriage works, it is good, and it does all of us the most good when it works well. Lets leave it at that.