For those against gay marriage would you ban divorce?

[jonks]

All you gay marriage supporters can brand me gay basher, gay hater so that you can justify your BS without deeper analysis, I don't care. But for me, it's not about gay. It's about
1. Has gay union proved that they are as stable as traditional marriage, where the couple support each other throughout their life til death

So you are asking, have gay couples traditionally been able to maintain a stable relationship in a society that has been condoning openly hostile behavior towards gays for most of its history? Gays have been living in the closet to avoid persecution for centuries. They have hid their relationships from friends and family. They have not let co-workers know of their orientation. Closeted teens have a 4x higher attempted suicide rate than straights because of the pressures they endure. Gay couples could not introduce their partners to their families and friends, or attend functions together like a work xmas party or a nephew's birthday party. They could not openly show affection in public in even the most chaste display like holding hands while walking else they be subject to slurs or even outright physical attacks. They had to live in secret fearful of being discovered lest their life be consumed by the mere fact that they were gay.

And you have the temerity to wonder why, in this climate, life-long gay relationships haven't historically prospered?

It's the height of hypocrisy to claim that the gov't should endorse marriage for the purpose of building stable family units while simultaneously denying a group who long for nothing more than to create a stable family unit from doing so. If your goal was actually to lower promiscuity and to encourage stable long lasting relationships you would not seek to prevent loving couples from being recognized, you would embrace gays who wanted to marry. It is a sacrament after all.

But that's pretty much the problem, isn't it? Your goal and the goal of those who support "traditional marriage" is not to endorse stable relationships or encourage procreation, or strengthen home environments for child raising; all of those things will happen among straight couples regardless of whether or not gays can enter into marriages. Your actual goal is to combat the acceptance of homosexual relationships as legitimate. The effect of pursuing your goal negates the very things you claim you support in society.