COLSON: Why Not Gay Marriage? – Christianity Today Magazine

Just how, then, does gay marriage threaten the public good? Barney Frank, a gay Congressman, phrased the question this way: “I don’t understand how it hurts anybody else if two people want to be legally responsible for each other.” His comment has a certain libertarian appeal, but it misses the point. Accepting homosexuals privately is not the same thing as normalizing homosexuality by granting homosexuals a legal right to the public institution of marriage.

Accepting same-sex relationships as the moral and legal equivalent of marriage will transform the very definition of marriage, with far-reaching repercussions.