Blech. Such drivel.
Wow! How enlightened we've become. Suddenly we've discovered "male" and "female" are artificial, culturally constructed institutions. Now we can do away with them and join anyone at all in Holy Matrimony.
To accept this is to assume all previous generations were foolish bigots for opposing the same. I'm egotistical in my own way, but not to THAT great an extent.
Stanley Kurtz is a far better conservative thinker on the topic. He gets it in a way that may seem odd to the David Brooks' of the world, but would be common sense to scores of preceding generations.
The gay community is not attempting to make the Religious institutions
comply, they are attempting to garner the same legal rights of being
married that are afforded to all others that the Government provides
through it's licensing of marriage.
This is an issue of Government licensing of the union of two people
that consequently affords certain rights and benefits to those two people
and the family of those two people.