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With regards to gay marriage,
Certainly marriage is not about sex, marriage is about commitment. As long as gay couples are capable of fulfilling the vows of commitment they are not in any way weakening the concept of marriage.
If one is against gay marriage then one obviously has the opinion that gay marriage will somehow damage society, after all, why else would someone want to hold on to a tradition if not because they thought that it held some benefit.
So, what benefit does keeping marriage strictly as a union between man and women serve in our society? None. The only difference is between homosexual marriage and heterosexual marriage is that one does not involve a penis and a vagina. So obviously the issue here IS homosexuality itself.
The people who use the tradition argument tell the world that this is “their” tradition. As if marriage was the sole invention of homophobic Christians and they hold the patent. This is emphasized by the simple fact that these groups are against marriage and not against civil union of gay couples. It is the equivalent of putting black at the back of the bus. They cannot get rid of the gays so they want to segregate them from their society.
Yet the fact that this an issue at all obviously comes back to the fact that marriage is seen as allot more then simply a man and a women being together. Just like marriage was determined to be more then a union between a white man and a white woman - despite this being a tradition for centuries. The essence of marriage is the lifelong commitment between partners as long as this reamains true most other issues are cosmetic in nature.
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