Most gays and lesbians do not want to marry each other.
- How do you know this? What research have you done? Why do you think gays have been fighting for all that marriage conveys in terms of legal and financial security?
That would entangle them in all sorts of legal constraints.
- You are making the assumption that gay people cannot experience love on the same intense level as non-gays. The same questions apply here too.
Who needs a lifetime commitment to one person? The intention here is to destroy marriage altogether.
- You are talking here in very exact terms about the heterosexual convention of divorce.
With marriage as we know it gone,
- Gone where? Gays are looking for marriage rights. They are not looking to abolish them. Why are you deliberately distorting the facts?
everyone would enjoy all the legal benefits of marriage (custody rights, tax-free inheritance, joint ownership of property, health care and spousal citizenship, etc.,) without limiting the number of partners or their gender.
- This is exactly the way things are for heterosexuals at present. You find this objectionable?
Nor would "couples" be bound to each other in the eyes of the law. This is clearly where the movement is headed.
- There is an element of self-contradiction here.
Studies indicate that homosexual couples have higher rates of promiscuity than heterosexual couples.
- Citation, please. Or do you mean that everything in society is so tilted that it is almost impossible for gay couples to form and maintain stable relationships because straight society does not want this to happen and actively militates against it?
Allowing gays to marry would make gays seek more partners.
- What evidence do you have for this. There is nothing at present that stops them doing this. If they wanted to continue, then they would not need marriage. Are you and idiot that you cannot see this simple logic, or is is simply that you prejudice blinds you to what you don't like?
In addition, studies report that homosexual couples have significantly higher incidences of violent behavior.
- A higher level than wife-beating/dominating, gun-toting redneck fundies?