This subject is such a touchy one and I have refrained from giving my opinion as a result until now.
The way I look at it is that the majority of people have not given the whole thing much thought. Whilst it is not something that bothers me because there is nothing that anyone who is against "gay" marriage can do to stop it without a pile of **** being brought down on you - that is if you become publicly outspoken about it.
Perhaps having been around for the past 56 years gives me the advantage of experience, because sure enough I experienced a time when homosexuals were persecuted and prosecuted. I was brought up in a fairly liberal household though. The old man was a uni lecturer for some time and po ofters, or homos as they were then, were accepted but they did not push their barrow in public and they did what they do in private.
(I have some funny ideas about sex. This weekend we had a stripper at the works do. When she arrived I quietly absented myself.)
So what is it all about then? How did we arrive where we are today arguing whether they should be allowed to marry, and more importantly, how did we arrive at a situation where years ago homosexuals were shunned by society? This has obviously not always been the case as many societies throughout history went through phases of rampant sexual deviancy. An Iranian friend, who prefers to be called Persian, told me that some Arabs today actually have a separate room for the boy.
My own personal opinion is that they have been shunned in the past because it is straightforward common sense that the penis was decsigned and intended for planting sperm in the vagina and the poephol was designed for voiding exrement.
The reason they are where they are today is a lot more sinister and is only one more string to the bow of those nasty farckers whose intent is to fracture family units in the interest of being able to manipulate them and society. There is a lot of infomation out there about that and if you care to read it you will understand why marriage is being bastardised.