Gunsmoke,

Heterosexual marriages are at 50% divorce rates so how could you claim gay marriage is any more unstable than a "normal" hetero marriage? In fact one could argue the challenges gays face would improve their chances of sticking together. Your argument is predicated on stereotypes of gays not being in monogomous relationships when in fact historically they are as likely as heteros to be in monogomous relationships as they mature, just like heterosexuals. Well known gays like Elton John, George Takai, and Ellen Degenerous have all had long time "spouses" while the heterosexual marriages of Brittany Spears, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen all ended badly and in extremely short amounts of time.

Secondly, the right to marry isnt based on the ability of a marriage to contribute to anything other than your happiness or persuit of it. If it makes you happy to married, then great, but it isnt required that you marry at all nor that you maintain a short or a long term marriage. Sure, society often judges character based on it, but that has nothing at all to do with the constitution. At the end of the day, there is nothing there to allow the law to keep anyone from marrying anyone else thus laws made to prevent gay marriage are by nature not constitutional and the first challenge such laws face in supreme court it will be shot down as unconstitutional.

Your one and only argument will be that states have had elections where the majority ruled against gay marriage--but remember that the constitution exists mainly to protect the minority from the tyrrany of the majority. What rationale can you come up with to support keeping gays from marrying knowing whatever you say must apply equally to heterosexuals?