I am in favor of gay marriage, but it is important that we listen to what Rhy has to say. It's lazy and borderline scary to say that since people don't take an institution seriously, then we are allowed to change the institution as we see fit. Talking only about how we treat marriage now is also lazy.

What needs to happen is a comprehensive discussion on the purpose of marriage that take into account its history and the whys/hows it came to be how it is today. If institutionalized marriage was originally put in place by Christians who wanted to promote Judeo-Christian values, then how can we say that the secularization of it over time invalidates the reason why we have it in the first place? It would be akin to saying that undeclared wars are a-ok now because that is how the institution of government is operating currently when its original form had checks and balances and an emphasis on Congress declaring hostilities beforehand.