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The fact is, that for a mere 30 years we have been busy destroying that structure and engaged in a huge sociologic experiment to see what happens when we try to raise children without any coherent family structure.

And yet I hear no call for a consitutional amendment prohibiting any state from granting a divorce to married people, or banning single people from conceiving or, better, raising children.

You seek to prohibit marriages between gay people which, more than likely, will not involve children at all, yet feel perfectly content with not prohibiting those actions by straight people who actually do produce children that deeply affect the quality of live children enjoy. You believe the boat has sprung a leak and is sinking, but you use a teacup to bail out instead of plugging the hole.

The fault lies in ourselves, not in our stars. If you really cared about children, you would be addressing the problems that actually affect them, the problems us straight people cause, instead of prohibiting gay marriages as some sort of symbolic act to put a bandaid on a problem.

You favor symbolism over substance. Are you a politician?

Nonsense. To use your analogy I see the boat sinking and do not think it wise to set the boat on fire. You make a breathtaking straw man argument. To talk of a constitutional amendment to ban bastardy, or divorce is idiotic and you know it. Most of the factors affecting those are beyond law and in the realm of culture.

As a physician, my first rule is " do no harm". When I can't cure a patient, I am obligated to do my best not to harm that patient. By encouraging further social decay gay marriage is a harm to society. Defining marriage by a civilized standard going back thousands of years does no harm, and may help to protect that society.

As to addressing the problems that affect children, first off I walk the talk as the married father of two. I've taught my kids to respect marriage and try to do the same when it's their turn. I support organizations such as the Boy Scouts who are trying to instill traditional values in children. I support laws that strengthen those values, oppose those that don't and vote for politicians who support my viewpoint to the extent possible.

I'm a physician I live in a practical world where I try to do the possible.

You make innane arguments and faulty assumptions, are you a lawyer, or a liberal?