Your opinion devalues marriage more that same sex marriage does. Take your kind opinion and apply it to straight marriage:
'I dont see what normal straight marriage does in terms of added values, why do a man and a woman who love each other need to get married? Surely they can just live together and thats all they need, theres no need to have any kind of marriage'. So what exactly is the point in marriage then? Your argument against gay marriage devalues every form of marriage..
Maybe you don't understand the role marriage plays in a society?
Historically protection for the woman's position, fidelity for the man, the purposes and values change over time but it's essentially the same social construct that binds society and religion together.
Gay marriage adds nothing to this.
For the historical pendants that seek to separate marriage from religion, well you are just wrong, however tenuous the link may be today doesn't mean it wasn't there.
If you think marriage will ever become meaningless due to two same sex people in a relationship wanting to marry each other,
Not what I said, marriage will decline because Christianity will decline, society will shed it's values in pursuit of nothing and everything becomes just another thing to consume. That gay marriage may or may not contribute to this is incidental, but likely.
then clearly you've never been in love or experienced a healthy relationship with anyone.
You realise that is a pretty offensive thing to say to anyone?
Particularly when you know nothing about their lives.
Your own insecurities are to blame for your percieved devaluation of marriage, it seems to me that two same sex people who love each other and want to get married understand the value and meaning of marriage far more significantly than you do.
I don't think anyone is discussing the virtues or intentions of anyone wishing to get married, only the wider implications of changing something which works for the sake of PC correctness.
Please could you talk to anyone else but me, I've seen you in lots of other threads on OcUK and in every single one there is a succession of people who rip your posts to pieces, you seem to post the most ridiculously blinkered points, then fail to comprehend anyone else's explanation and generally take up space which is better spent addressing other people's points.
No offence, but I don't want to get involved in the frustrating futility of correcting your misapprehensions all the time, I'd rather leave the debate
Gay people cant have, never will, be able to as a couple, so why should they be allowed to use a surrogate? So many children out there that need some love and a family environment, not some gay couple that thinks its cool to have new born baby.
Gay couples make pretty good parents, given that they have bigger hurdles to overcome to get there probably makes them more determined.
I'd agree with you about Elton though, no child needs publicity.