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Why I am against gay marriage

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Unlike the vast majority of cases against same sex marriage I am not  going to use arguments of procreation, or compare same-sex parenting to heterosexual parenting. I will use neither religious arguments, nor natural law arguments, nor arguments based off of preference.  Rather this case, which is a secular case, made by a secular writer, emphasizes overlooked aspects of the empirical costs of legalizing same-sex marriage.  Some of the overlooked aspects include the ways in which same sex marriage expands the marital institution to include gender identity , transgender individuals, transsexual individuals, bisexual individuals who want a same-sex marriage, and how these new dimensions will impact the marriage institution. The marriage institution will be impacted not because same-sex couples can’t procreate within their union, but rather quite the opposite:  the fact that there are many same-sex couples raising children will change family law within the marriage instit