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Originally Posted by Nucklesack  Your mixing apples, the harm to marriage has been caused by Hetrosexuals. Marriage as an institution, with a 50% success rate, is a statistical failure. You can not hold up the institution of Hetero Marriage as something that needs to be defended against gays, when the ones causing the damage arent Gay. |
You're not understanding my point, I think.
I'm not suggesting that homosexuals are damaging marriage as an institution. I'm suggesting that the dilution of the concept of marriage by adding more types of unions into it slowly (over generations) hurts society's stability in general.
My marriage will not change one iota if gays marry, and I suspect yours will not either. But, the way our grandchildren and great-grandchildren view the institution of marriage will be somewhat less than the way our grandparents and great-grandparents did (our change starting in the 60's when the divorce laws were loosened). Our society is worse for the easier divorce and how it weakened the concept of marriage, and divorce rates increased dramatically because of it, not to mention "shacking up" (which isn't even considered "bad" anymore). Our posterity will equally be worse off.