It seems to me to be pragmatic to not make it so hard for them to formalize a relationship somehow to stop much of the promescuity in that culture.
I never understood making more formalized (not marriage mind you) relationships between lesbians and gays difficult which encourages multiple partners, and then calling for an end to behavior causing further infections.
Seems to me the pandemic logistics take priority over some American's longtime past-time of waging a war against gays and lesbians.
You can't do the latter without hurting the effort to do the former.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck then it's a...?
We are talking about inherently irrational actions committed by people without any moral-restraint. Your liberal ideas of promoting a perversion of marriage sounds good to uninformed ears, but really they are merely band-aids to a festering wound. So-called 'safe sex' used to be their big answer, until the sexual deviants bailed out on that as being 'too much trouble.' Now we have organizations such as 'Sex Panic' who are calling for MORE promiscuity rather than less. The only way to stop self-inflicted behavioral diseases is to stop the behaviors which cause them. The waste of taxpayer money is about as bad as the moral-liberal excuses for their evil behaviors.
God is infinite wisdom. Humanism is pure hubris, which always results in unneeded suffering and death.
I understand it to mean that we don't want this crap perverting our culture in any way, shape, or form. Yes, making their relationships somehow formalized may cut down on their promiscuity, but not likely. If we somehow allow them a legalized, formal relationship, then we acknowledge that being gay is acceptable. Either way, we're screwed (ok, not the best choice of words for this topic).
This approach is analagous to the situation where a parent tells their teen that they don't want them drinking, and the teen says "well if you let me drink at home, then I won't get into trouble". That's not the point, the parent doesn't want ANY drinking. Just like we don't want ANY homosexual relationships going on. Giving in to a lesser evil is not a solution.