I'm pro gay marriage. I don't see what is wrong with that.

What is wrong about gay marriage, as proposed, Luca, is that it would expand a government function.

Government should not be involved in personal matters, marriage included. If gay (and non-gay) people want to marry without the government's blessings, then they are already free to do so.

Homosexuals already have equal rights to live together as lovers. Persons of the same gender cannot create a marriage, as marriage is a biological term meaning the uniting of the uniting of sperm with ova with the potential to create a child in their image. Births, deaths and marriage are all biological events that the Government records because it effects population statistics. That is the reason defacto relationships are recorded as it has that potential.

Dear Josephus,

If a marriage is registered by the state it means whatever the state chooses it to mean.

Davidf, If the term marriage can mean anything then it does not describe in specific terms the union of a man and a woman and a descriptive term needs to be found to describe exactly a lifelong agreement between a man and a woman to engage in copulation to produce children. The state has no interest in other relationships as it does not effect or change population.

Dear Josephus,

I am married to a woman, but we have no children. We did not intend to have children when we got married. I guess you wouldn't consider us married. I guess you wouldn't consider king Solomon married to all his wives. The meaning of marriage changes with the times.