[Know your rights]

Eventually, the word "marriage" will mean whatever the people using the term want it to mean. At that point, the institution is dead.

So long as men and women continue to enter into real marriages, I don't see how the institution is destroyed. As Taliesan posted, "Calling a donkey a horse doesn't hurt the horses."

[Taliesan]

Eventually, the word "marriage" will mean whatever the people using the term want it to mean.

This is true right now. It matters nothing for my marriage, or for my son's eventual marriage. It won't matter two whits to him and his future wife if they let dogs "marry" each other.

Good grief. You can call yourself a Christian now and deny that Jesus rose from the dead. Does that do ANYTHING to my faith?

Nothing.

[NathanR]

"Calling a donkey a horse doesn't hurt the horses."

What happens, is that if you call donkeys horses and expect them to have sex together, you get mules (and jennies) not horses and donkeys, both of which are sterile. The net result is that you get fewer horses.

[nosofar]

"So long as men and women continue to enter into real marriages, I don't see how the institution is destroyed. "

The point is that men and women will be *less likely* to continue to enter into real marriages. Real marriage will become more and more rare. Your reasoning is something like 'as long as the car runs, I see no reason to put gas in it'.