Marriage is a legal contract binding two people together as a couple and awarding them financial couplehood status. Nothing else. Now wether those two people are of opposite of same gender depends on how much a society will allow it's governing body to discriminate against its fellow citizens.
Marriage means nothing more than what you want it to mean, if you hate "dykes" and "fags" and consider them to be an "abomination against God" then obviously you're going to proclaim the sanctity of the holy unity of marriage between one man and one woman. But guess what, it doesn't mean squat.
I don't really care that you hate gays so much that you feel the need to legislate against them, I'm sure they hate you too or more likely feel pity for your ignorance. I'm not saying homosexuality is natural, you only have to look at how the body works to figure out that it is an abnormal practice, but who cares? Are they hurting you? Are they coming on to you? Were you abused by one? I'm trying to figure out why the hate.
When I was an ignorant little kid I too was hateful towards gays even though some of my family friends were gay but as I grew up I learned that they're just people too and have every right to their non-harmful to others activities as you do to yours. I have learned to accept gays and Christians but I find that the former group do not try to push their views onto society like the latter group do and for this reason I have very few Christian friends.
I can understand why abotion upsets you and others but you're a guy and it's not your fucking decision to make. The way I see it and I know I'll be crucified for this is that the unwanted still dividing zygote in a woman's body is as welcome as a cancerous growth and there aren't too many people who would lobby that a cancerous growth has a right to life. It's a hardline stance to take I know and I concede that it is a decision that should be given proper consideration and not just terminated on a whim but it is a choice that should be allowed legal to be made no matter what the reason, up to a point. Obviously one cannot wait too long or the grwoing mass of sperm and egg will develop organs and a brain and then it will have a right to life.
To say that there has to be something out there or there would be nothing down here is just a refusal to accept the scary possibility of cold and empty universe brought about through chance. But to me that's far more exciting than the rather simplistic "God did it" answer, that's just saying that you're too lazy to look too hard at anything. It may be comforting to you and if it stops you from going postal then great but for me the universe is all numbers and random chance. How much more valuable is this life when you consider that if a string of amino acids hadn't gotten it on with itself some four billion years ago you might not be here arguing the point against today? It's exillerating to me but if you don't think so then I appreciate that but I do feel sorry for you that you've concealed the true majesty of life in the universe in a (well meaning) fable designed to make people pay their taxes and stay in line.
I believe in this life and in nothing else, for anything not of this world should be of no concern to this life for it can have no impact and no value in the world and thus be little more than a distraction from reality.