I strongly disagree, or at least I disagree with your definition of right thinking people. Good gracious, man, Michael Jordan or James Carville or even Harry Potter can legitimize conduct in the minds of much of our populace. Maybe you wouldn't call them "right thinking people" but they have a huge impact on your and my futures.
Jeff Jacoby pointed out that once Vermont created homosexual unions, 2,000 married men from Massachusetts got divorced and went across the border to "marry" their homosexual lover. While it is likely that a large number of them would have divorced for their "lover" anyway, we can't discount a number of them (5%, 10%, 2%) who decided it must be OK if it's legal. That's somewhere between 40 and 200 families ruined because government legitimized homosexual unions.
It is true that you and I will recognize it as wrong regardless, but most people don't think like you and I.
And I guess that's a good thing.
Shalom.
As all through history. None of this affected my family. I can't do anything about what others think other than speak my mind. I do not advocate violence or the threat thereof to attempt to do so.
My grown children never thought anything was OK because someone else said so. Whether or not they were pop figures or government employees. If they started down that road, we disabused them of the idea. They have turned out fine. And I am confident their children will also.
Government don't make people married, promises before God do. People of the same sex cannot be married, despite what they call it.