This is how gay marriage played out in my family. My gay brother married his gay boy friend in a private ceremony in Mexico in 2003 which I did not attend. My brother and spouse returned to St Louis where AIDS continued to ravage my brother’s health.
AIDS allows many diseases to ravage the body: my brother had blindness, neuropathy, renal disease, etc. Finally he got brain cancer, in 2005, after 14 years with AIDS. Wash U Hospital treated him with one dose of chemo, he had a seizure, and died. He was 48 at that time, and a very gifted stage actor and director.
So, I am not a fan of Gay Marriage. Homosexuality cost me my brother who is gone from my life now. I loved him and am grateful for the time we had together. Homosexual behaviour is not what God intended, and marriage is a sacred sacrament to be entered into before God and witnesses, by a man and a woman, and mankind is not free to mess with the gift of the institution of marriage without suffering great pain as individuals and as a society.
What studies there are, rarely show the mates in a “gay marriage” or “same sex civil union” keeping exclusively to one another. More commonly they each end up having more partners than if they had never bothered with the charade — the partner is perceived as a drag on the libertine life, and more libertine behavior ensues in an attempt to make up for it. Voila, more venereal disease, not less.