Gay Marriage

[Chaerophon]

Our psyc is intended to promote children.

You're fundamentally misapplying psychology here... Our "psychology" is not intended to promote anything. It is a derivation of our lived experiences, chemical make-up, etc., etc., etc. I don't know if you're a religious person, but your argument is absolutely loaded with religious language. Intention implies an intender. Who is this masked man/woman for you? The process of evolution is not an actor in itself, so we can't reduce it to that.

Essentially, what I'm saying is this: the normalcy of heterosexuality is, for all intents and purpose, a societal creation. Procreation does not have any of the connotations that you attach to it outside of a societally imposed religious context (even that is definitely questionable). There will always be enough people willing to have children/heterosexual sex to maintain, if not increase the population (of course, I'm not even sure why you think that this is so intrinsically valuable...we're a long ways away from being grossly underpopulated)

If the bulk of society is prepared to recognize/accept the "normalcy" of homosexuality, then where is the harm? Even this is not reason enough to ban homosexuality - if the freely-chosen actions of homosexuals do not directly harm others, then what right do we have to deny them? Raising children is a whole other issue that I do not care to get involved in, as I am unaware of any of the research involved. What I care about is the fact that whether heterosexuals judge homosexuality to be a "pathology" is beside the point. From what context do they do so? If I vote communist party next election, am I a pathological ideologist? Just because the rest of society does not endorse my socialist values? You're caught either way: if homosexuals merely choose to act as they do, then what right do we have to stop them from making such a (contractual, recall) choice in a rights-based liberal-societal context? The old "moral fabric of society" BS is a damned dangerous, hegemonic place to go as justification. If, on the other hand, they have no choice, and are born that way? Then Lemming's argument re: race actually goes a long way in proving the point.