Peggy R says: 13 August 2010 at 10:01 AM I think one has to argue why the state and society benefit from heterosexual marriages in ways that they do not from gay or other forms of unions???in procreation and child rearing, in propogation of future generations, in social stability, in reducing crime or other social pathologies, in ???civilizing??? men (neither 2 gay men nor 2 gay women civilize men