How can procreation be the sole purpose of marriage?
I don’t recall anyone saying that it was the sole purpose. The government’s involvement, however, has become almost entirely about dealing with legal obligations associated with children.
First of all, you don’t need to get married to have kids. Secondly, if having kids is so desirable then you ought to encourage every pregnancy, even if the woman is unmarried or underage, or was raped, and you should ban all forms of birth control.
Who argued that having kids “is so desirable”?
If a woman has more kids than she can care for, other families with fewer kids should be forced to adopt them. Actually, everyone should be forced to have kids and every married couple who couldn’t have kids should be made to divorce.
Who argues for this? No one.
If you don’t agree with any of the above, then keep your nose out of other people’s lives. I don’t care if gays want to marry; it has absolutely no affect on me or my religious beliefs.
It will once the government starts punishing churches that decline to perform religious marriage ceremonies.
If your argument is “keep your nose out of other people’s lives” then you are in no position to insist that the government needs to be involved what a gay couple does. If a gay couple wants to live together, share property, etc., they can do that without having an official government seal of approval.
