What is wrong with same-sex marriages?
I don't see any problem at all.
People can't just prevent a marriage between a couple from loving each other just because they are the same gender.
Possessing attraction to someone of the same sex or opposite, really doesn't matter unless it is true love.

Children need a father and a mother in their upbringing. The Judeo-Christian basis for marriage is the best model for family living, even if we do live in a secular state with a division of church and State.
Also, Martin Luther was actually married, so I'm not quite sure where that particualr argument was leading to?

Same sex marriage has no harm, people are just scared of different people of the world. Same sex marriages mostly cause issues due to other people who hate people who are different. Same sex marriages should be allowed for the people.

Timothy N,
Heterosexual people do not hate and are not scared of homosexual persons. I have many acquaintances in my life who have chosen to live in same sex relationships. Several have already died of AIDS. That society hates you is merely your ill founded perception.

Society does not decide gender marriage it is human design of gender that discriminates what relationships naturally produce children. It is to do with natural human fertility only a man and a woman can mate to naturally produce children, which is the ordained state of marriage.

Marriage defines a state of human relationship and two persons of the same gender do not qualify. If one of the parties has children it has not been the product of the same sex relationship. If Gays want to publicly identify their relationship it is a blatant lie to call it marriage, as it is not a relationship between the two genders as husband and wife. To call their relationship marriage changes the meaning of the definition of the act between genders.

Men in many societies commit homosexual acts with each other but they do not call it marriage because they have a wife and children at home. Are they now to call their relationship a marriage or adultery?

Philo, you are right, and I back you up 100 percent.

We know what the formal bond or contract of "marriage" has stood for in the past, so how does the idea of same-sex marriage stack up? Or, have our expectations of marriage itself changed so much that it doesn't really matter anymore - legal ramifications aside?

Re child-raising: Same-sex couples can only have children by artificial means, or by adoption - but the same can and does apply to many traditional married couples. However, can a same-sex marriage be expected to satisfy the norm of stability and security warranted for the raising of children (and here let us compare with the average of traditional marriages)? Statistically the answer would have to be a resounding NO - because the incidence of cheating (adultery) and of "divorce" in same-sex couples is so much higher, and as the average duration of same-sex relationships is so much shorter. Can this then be expected to provide a suitably wholesome and stable family environment? Unlikely - and could at best equate with some single parent families.

Of course many traditional marriages do not involve children, but are still considered valuable to societal structure and values. Can same-sex marriage also contribute positively to societal coherence or values? Possibly in a minority of cases. Could such a minority contribution warrant overthrow of the traditional marriage concept? I think not.

De-facto relationships are often stable and long-term, though not always of course, but the odds for same-sex relationships are on average fairly poor.

The assessment? To reduce "marriage" to the lowest denominator - that is to be representative of the poorest of marriages, de-facto relationships or single-parent family situations - would be to reduce the concept and contribution of marriage to a nonentity, to the status of merely an historical footnote.

Why then is the divorce rate so high, if opposite sex marriage is so sacosanct !