I don't buy that this is victimless behavior. The victims are the kids adopted into this "marriage." There are increasing instances of these folks in "civil unions" where one partner has a child and there are all these visiting rights issues. One woman even "remarried" the child's biological father and the other woman wanted custody. What a mess!
Just the condoning of the homosexual lifestyle by legitimizing it is condoning unhealthy behavior. The STD rate in the gay community is phenomenal, not to mention the rate of HIV/AIDS and other diseases. As someone mentioned before it is a highly hedonistic lifestyle. Far more dangerous to ones health than other things the government currently interferes with. And then society pays for these sick folks to receive very expensive care.
Forcing folks to condone and "celebrate" this lifestyle is social engineering; not maintaining a 1000's of year old tried and true societal tradition.
I think your position is right on if we were to go back to the pre-Great Depression days, to the days when there was no social security or medicare, or Federal Dept of education, when the Federal government knew its role was pretty much foreign policy and national defense PERIOD. But that is not reality in today's world. The government has already meddled to the point where only additional meddling can sometimes set things right.
"One woman even "remarried" the child's biological father and the other woman wanted custody. What a mess! "
The same happens even when you enter the word "man" instead of the "other woman".
"Far more dangerous to ones health than other things the government currently interferes with. And then society pays for these sick folks to receive very expensive care."
Should the good society let "these" people die?
The society also pays for health care of the people who smoke (cancer), for the people who drink alcohol (liver), for the people who cross the street and get hit by a car....
I hope that you get my point. Save them all or save none, otherwise we do not deserve to call ourselves human.