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A couple of quick things:
1. infinite: i think you are mistaken in your claim of circular logic. I believe that form is a syllogism. It reads to me like: A person who opposes gay marriage is a bigot. Infinite opposes gay marriage. Therefore, Infinite is a bigot." I believe circular would look more like "A person who opposes gay marriage is a bigot. The fact that Infinite opposes gay marriage and is a bigot proves this." You may dispute that a person who opposes gay marriage is automatically a bigot, but that doesn't make the argument circular. You disagree with one of the axioms...I believe it was filterton's?
2. It really doesn't matter what the basis of a person's motivation to get married, when it comes to addressing the legality of the practice. They could be marrying because they both love the idea of slaughtering panda bears with dull scissors. The question is simply whether or not two people of the same sex can enter into a state-sanctioned marriage contract, with all the rights that are implied, in the same way with the same facility that two people of opposite sex can.
I was thinking earlier today that the very issue you seem to be dancing around might be the precise one that the op asked to be addressed. You have said that you oppose gay marriage, and (those are [your] views). You have given some reasons you feel that gay marriage should / could rationally be opposed. It seems to me that many of these have been discredited, but perhaps you do not feel so. Regardless, I think that the issue behind the (these are [your] views) might be more interesting to the op, and the topic. I can promise you that the question of gay marriage has been addressed ad nauseum on these boards. At the very most root, visceral level: why do you oppose gay marriage? Just because you view it as icky and not natural?
I hope I don't sound offensive, I don't really care to argue with you. I just don't clearly understand your reasons for your views.
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