The Virtue of Marriage

The Virtue of Marriage
There is today a very persuasive argument that if marriage is considered to be a good condition, then why deny this attribute to homosexual people.
No doubt there is a term for this kind of argument. What it is doing is taking a conclusion to an argument, and using it as if it is the whole.
The real argument is that marriage enables the natural result of that union, children and the family, to be nurtured in a socially acceptable way that should also protect society from the need to support an unsupported family of a single person. In any case the presence of a father is generally considered to be desirable for the children. Where marriage is merely for mutual gratification, and children are not intended, then that institution may be acceptable, but it is of no great social significance. Naturally, marriages get into difficulties, and children suffer as a result - that is par for the course.
A form of marriage between same sex couples, may be accepted by society, but that is not to mean acceptance of it as a norm equivalent to heterosexual marriage and family life. If a same sex couple were ever to have children of their own it would be the result of totally unnatural medical procedures.