Originally Posted By: 2x6spds
As to the state sanctioning homosexual relations, that's fine with me (excepting adoption). Just don't call it marriage.

Your adoption exception is par for the course, as would be its tenuously justifiable defense should you choose to share it.

Any idiot can become a parent. It takes an intentional act of altruism to be an adoptive parent. To withhold from able and willing gay couples the same rights as heterosexual parents enjoy is morally suspect.