Um, no. That is not the purpose of marriage, either civil or religious. The purpose of marriage, in law, nature and tradition is to provide a stable relationship for the purposes of procreating and rearing children.
The benefits and protections the law offers to married persons are to reduce the burdens and encourage child rearing.
Homosexual marriage cannot exist by definition because they cannot procreate. And don't give me any carp about existing gay families, every child in them was created by hetersexual means and are in gay families by malfeasance of the bio parents and/or the state agencies that placed them there.
Marriage is a procreative institution by nature, tradition and law. Judicial activism to redefine it may change the law and traditional culture, but it will not change nature.
There will be ugly, unintended consequences for future generations as a result of this judicial tyranny and stupid social engineering.
Excellent arguments, very enlightening. These are some of the best non-religious points of view I have heard.
I still don't think we should stop people from having a legal union, but at least you make a lot of sense.