What you are ignoring, and what the entire gay agenda would have everyone ignore, but what has guided this nation since its inception in such matters is common sense and an underlying moral foundation.
The principle definition of marriage (the act which weds) and matrimony (the state which is entered as a result of marriage)is as follows:
marriage: the state, act or right of being married, a relation between a husband and wife.
matrimony: the state of being husband and wifeThere is no historical precedence in this nation for anything else and what is happening now is a pure wresting and perversion of our institutions in a vain attempt to satisfy the hedonistic cravings of those pursuing alternate lifestyles in order to force them to be acceptable.
That dog don't hunt...that dog CAN'T hunt.
John Adams addressed this type of issue best with the following words:
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798As we lose that defining principle...we lose our republic and all it is based upon. That is what is really happening here.