An issue I take up with gay marriage which in recent discussions with both gay and straight friends: Why hold on to such an old broken-down archaic convention which was invented in a time period long gone? Take the opportunity to invent and establish a new convention far more appropriate for the times. Battered women, psychological abuse, lazy love, bum dads, broken homes, child abuse, sweat pants, gold diggers, divorce lawyers, the divorce rate is telling, and children caught in the middle of it all. I personally have never been married but it doesn't take it to recognize that there are many things broken today about the design of traditional marriage. Sure we'll loose out on nostalgia, going out of step on a dance our ancestors have swung for centuries. But with anything involving human beings it must evolve alongside.
