And some more headlines/arguments that may sound like ideas expressed on this thread:
A Gay-Marriage Solution: End Marriage?
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In a paper published March 2 in the San Francisco Chronicle, two law professors from Pepperdine University issued a call to re-examine the role the government plays in marriage. The authors — one of whom voted for and one against Proposition 8, which ended gay marriage in California — say the best way out of the intractable legal wars over gay marriage is to take marriage out of the hands of the government altogether.
Same sex marriage a civil right
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It appears to me that there are two distinct ways to make the case for gay marriage — a long and short way. The long way runs through a lengthy list of Supreme Court cases which have rejected government efforts to enforce gender roles and sexual “morality,” as well as cases which have established a right to privacy and a large degree of self-determinism in the most personal of affairs. ....
The short way to make the case for gay marriage is to examine the basic purpose of law in a free country with a secular government — a government that is not in the business of enforcing mere moral opinions. The case can be explained very simply and in general terms: the government cannot bar any behavior that does not interfere with a legitimate and secular government interest. {Emphasis added)

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich