Bill Muehlenberg makes some exceptionally good points here.

The issue isn’t Marriage “Equality”, it’s Marriage “Reality”. If the reality of marriage as a one-man, one-woman union oriented toward the begetting and raising of a family, and committed for life, isn’t recognized, it will be deconstructed to the point of total dismemberment.

Of course, I am not predicting this. I am describing it.

And homosexual “marriage” is not validated by, or made necessary by, the presence of children. At best, a gay “marriage” takes a child sired or conceived by its mom or dad in the normal way, and the deprives that child of either its father or its mother, deliberately and permanently.

Thus is not a social choice worth mainstreaming and supporting.

Increasingly, children are bring commoditized and produced for gay couples using non-intercourse reproductive technologies: artificial insemination, egg donors (actually vendors), IVF, and surrogacy, which is reproductive concubinage. These are even worse, because the child is basically bring treated as a lab product, a lifestyle accessory, or an extensive pet.

The (let’s face it) purchasers of this pet may speak about love, but how much love is being shown when their very first decision was to permanently deprive their child of his natural genetic parents and his entire constellation of natural kinship?

Then if the child of “gaydads” yearns to have a mom, or the lesbians’ kid wishes he had a dad, that deep natural yearning is trivialized, and the kid is expected to just get over it.

It is a sign that in this Brave New World, kids’ rights and profound needs are always trampled by adults’ preferences.