If a gay couple has been together for 17 yrs, 30 yrs etc and want to get married, shouldn't that say something good about marriage? If they were willing to commit to each other, for that long, wouldn't it say something about their love, for each other? Wouldn't that be something which should be thought of as positive, instead of negative?
How many heterosexual couples get married, announcing to the world, “for better or worse, until death do us part”, then soon after they are married, are cheating on each other. How many get divorced shortly after getting married? How many couples live together, without getting married? Are they all giving the “Sanctity of Marriage” a good name? Is that what the religious right prefer?
Yet a gay couple, even if they have children, from previous marriages, have had children together, with one or the other being the natural parent or have adopted children and have given them a loving caring family life, don't deserve to be married.
Somehow, if a heterosexual couple marry, have a rotten marriage, with a lot of spousal abuse or abuse of their children, somehow they are promoting the “Sanctity of Marriage”, because they are heterosexual.
Of course, some of the religious right feel marriage isn't really about love, it's only about pro-creation and having as many kids as they can, without any thought as to how they will take care of them or how they will survive in a world, which is overpopulated, to the point children are dying all over, due to starvation.
According to some, a woman's purpose is only to be the incubator, for the man's children. It doesn't involve any love and she should have as many children, as the man wants, regardless of what it is doing to her body. Of course that is all right, because they are doing what God wanted them to do. They are pro-creating.
I would think God would want people to have the common sense to know when to slow down or even stop having children. I would think God would want people to have the common sense or brains, to know they would not make good parents or are able to support them, so should not be having children.
Why bring children into an unloving home, where they are abused, because they were not wanted and happened to be unplanned?