Marriage is for the establishment of BLOOD LINE INHERITANCE.
Gays do not reproduce. Therefore. there is no transfer of property to the next generation.
“Yet two brothers/sisters living together ; two close friends with no sexual relationship are denied these same rights.”
Familial relationships “Blood lines” are covered by long (Thousands of years) of inheritance rules, that vary by culture.
“Two close friends” have no rights, whatsoever, over familial rights.
As to the first line, even adoptive children do not inherit in Texas, except by will, in many cases.
As to gay marriage, it took a long while to obtain the abolition of common law marriage, but since 1970, it is quickly become the norm. Gay marriage is simply the reductio ad absurdum of this process. The finally stake in the heart of traditional marriage. Instead we have the idea of purely emotional relationships. When the emotion goes away, the relationship ends.
It was not designed or intentioned as a recipient of a male penis. Physiologically, historically, morally, religiously.
Sorry to get graphic, but homosexuality is an afront to God's natural law, in addition to being devoid of ways to reproduce the human race naturally.
” Gays do not reproduce “ in which, is a good thing, however, they recruit their victims into that life style.