I lifted this from another discussion board:

TWELVE REASONS TO BAN GAY MARRIAGE

1. Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, flying in airplanes, polyester, and birth control.
2. Heterosexual marriages are valid because they produce children. Infertile couples and old people can't legally get married because the world needs more children.
3. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
4. Straight marriage will be less meaningful, since Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage was meaningful.
5. Heterosexual marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are property, blacks can't marry whites, and divorce is illegal.
6. Gay marriage should be decided by people not the courts, because the majority-elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of the minorities.
7. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.
8. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
9. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
10. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why single parents are forbidden to raise children.
11. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society. Heterosexual marriage has been around for a long time, and we could never adapt to new social norms because we haven't adapted to cars, the internet, TV or longer lifespan.
12. Civil unions, providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name are better, because a "separate but equal" institution is always constitutional. Separate schools for African-Americans worked just as well as separate marriages for gays and lesbians will.

Great post, JC. It should be pinned to the top of the forum.

There was a study just released that confirmed what I've suspected was 1 of the reasons why conservatives are so against gay people marrying each other - they want to weaken our relationships.

January 23, 2008
Study: Gay Couples as Devoted as Straight Couples
New research shows that gay and lesbian couples are just as devoted in their relationships as straight people and that while being denied marriage or civil unions doesn’t affect their happiness, it does diminish their likelihood of staying together, Reuters reported Tuesday.

In two new studies published in the journal Developmental Psychology, scientists compared same-sex and heterosexual couples and assessed their happiness. The first study, released by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, found that as the level of commitment increased, so did the ability to resolve conflicts, disproving the myth that gay couples are weaker than straight ones, according to the study.

“Among the committed couples, there were very few differences that we were able to identify either in terms of how satisfied these couples were, how effectively they interacted with one another, or how their bodies responded physiologically while they were interacting with one another,” Glenn I. Roisman, one of the researchers, told Reuters.

A second study focused on whether the legal status of a relationship affected its quality. Researchers from the University of Washington, the University of Vermont, and San Diego State University concluded that gay couples -- with and without civil unions -- found their relationships more fulfilling than straight married couples. Same-sex couples without civil unions, though, were more likely to end their relationships.

“I think it’s very hard to make the case, as has been made, that these same-sex relationships are fundamentally different from opposite-sex relationships in the presence of data like these and other data in the developmental literature,” Roisman told Reuters. (The Advocate)

I found it most interesting about gay couples finding their relationships more fulfilling than straight married couples. This doesn't really surprise me.

Without the ability to get legally married, I don't feel any of the societal pressures in my relationship. My partner and I just live our life, go to work, do our own thing. Nothing special, nothing out of the ordinary. There is no one in our lives asking about marriage, about kids, etc. It makes for a more stress-free life together, at least I think so.

Most of us have heard plenty of honest talk from straight male friends about the 'sanctity' of their marriage. Most straight men, in honest moments, will tell ya just how crazy the women really are, and how being married is often a survival course through the weird and wacky world of the female human.

Umm, do you not have straight female friends, because your comment is sexist. Do you not think straight men aren't "weird and wacky"? Lord knows, look at the damage they do across the world! Let's not dump on women, of any sexuality, okay? We wouldn't be on this earth without them.

I heartily agree.

And from personal experience, straight women tend to be more gay-friendly than their male counterparts.