[longtermmemmory]

The author is ignorant. Marriage as an institution is not about love. The institution is about raising children.

Homosexuals can have all the private sex they want. Marriage is a public instution. You do not have sex in public.

[Matthew Rush]

The institution is about raising children.

Oh please, when will the right retire that old chestnut? Or when will the right start attcking all the childless marriages in our country?

Get real.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

The author is ignorant. Marriage as an institution is not about love. The institution is about raising children. It's about both. In Judaism, for example, widows and widowers are encourage to marry, even if past child-bearing age, for the companionship, including sexual union.