Homo vs Holy Matrimony...

I held on to my belief that gays should be allowed to marry throughout the entire process. I felt that each time the opposing view was presented, I was pushed the other way. It's not like I've never thought about this issue, so I had a lot of ideas and stances in my head as I prepared to answer these questions, and I remained undeterred.
One of the arguments included this: "Yet such marriages are even more important for the proper socialization and overall well-being of children..." So this is saying that if a gay couple raises a child, the child is automatically at a disadvantage? I feel that this is such a hollow defense- there's no real backing to it. It can say that some form of ambiguous research was conducted, but who can really judge whether or not a person is up to par socially? I mean, if you are a well developed child with a functioning brain and body and you happen to be mean or annoying, does that make you less "acceptable"? And who's to say what causes this? Serial killers come from families too, and I'm more than willing to bet over 90% of them come from heterosexual couples. I don't believe that there is any study that could conclude that having two moms or two dads could actually have a negative effect on the well-being of a child. There's always the chance that kids at school could be narrow-minded, and maybe the child of the gay couple would be made fun of, but kids are cruel, they make fun of anything that's out of the ordinary, and it's certainly unfair and small minded to blame that on a non traditional couple that loves their child as much as any other parent would.

Another point was that, “Research clearly demonstrates that family structure matters for children, and the family structure that helps the most is a family headed by two biological parents in a low-conflict marriage...” I think that this statement should be reworded to say "...a family headed by two parents..." Having two parents is always going to be better than one. It's an extra set of eyes to watch an infant, an extra pair of hands in the kitchen, an extra pair of legs to play hide and go seek with, and most importantly, another heart to give to a child. It doesn't matter who you are, if you grow up in a house with adults that love and nurture you to the best of their abilities, you will grow up to be a normal, well adjusted person. There are a few exceptions to the rule, but that usually lies in the hand of the kid. What if you don't know your biological parents like to estimated 50 million orphans in the world? Do you mean to tell me that it would be better to let these millions of kids live in an over-filled orphanage with (likely) not enough funding or supervision, than to let a loving gay couple rescue them? You can't be serious.

And I understand the religious part of this too...I'm Catholic and I know that my religion completely goes against what I'm saying, but I truly feel that in our ever changing world, we need not be ignorant! We have to embrace change...that's the ultimatum, there's no other choice. I may not want to necessarily want to see a gay couple making out, but I wouldn't want to see a hetero couple making either...so I guess it's pretty even.

Finally, "many consider marriage to be the bedrock of our society and to allow gay marriage is to allow that bedrock to crumble?" This, to me, is the most ridiculous argument yet. What about the approximated 55% of ALL marriages that fail? They don't say whether that's just gay or hetero couples does it? It's ALL marriages, but if 5 gay marriages fail, suddenly it justifies why NO gay couple should wed. If hetero couples are allowed to make a mistake like marrying the wrong person (some have remarried upwards of 3 times), why can't gay couples?