False analogy.
Marriage requires a male and a female.
So you say. The VT legislature and the Iowa Supreme Court disagree. What makes you right and them wrong?
Anything else is a cheap counterfeit that devalues and destroys the institution.
To make this argument, one must believe that "marriage" is a finite quantity. That when two gays have some marriage, there is somehow less marriage for the hetero couples. I confess that this argument puzzles me. Perhaps you can expand on your thesis?
Wrong.
So you say. The VT legislature and the Iowa Supreme Court disagree. What makes you right and them wrong?
Fallacious Appeal to authority. If you want to go that route, the UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT has summarily affirmed that traditional marriage laws DO NOT violate the Constitution. (See: Baker v. Nelson 409 U.S. 810 (1972)).
But we really shouldn't go that route.
We should go the route of recognizing the facts. The fact is men and women are different. The fact is, male parts are made to fit into female parts. The fact is, only the Union of a man and a woman can form biological offspring.
Marriage exists to ensure the continuation of the human race. Government encourages behavior that ensures that Children will have a mother and father. Despite your best attempts to twist reality, kids who are raised without both a mother and father are far worse off.
Society has an interest in ensuring that stable male-female relationships are maintained for the betterment of our future generations.
Homosexuality is aberrant, perverted and an affront to all that is healthy.
To make this argument, one must believe that "marriage" is a finite quantity. That when two gays have some marriage, there is somehow less marriage for the hetero couples. I confess that this argument puzzles me. Perhaps you can expand on your thesis?
Absolutely not. When something has a certain essence in order to exist, then a counterfeit copy of that devalues the real thing. In order for a marriage to exist, there must be a male and a female, as I pointed out above.