Argument #1: That same-sex marriage would destroy the institution of marriage.
Point by point: * The Scandinavian studies to which the article presumably refers are the work of right-wing author Stanley Kurtz, who attempted to prove that same-sex marriage decreased the rate of heterosexual marriage in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. This work has been discredited; see the last paragraph on this page for a summary explaining why. * The often-quoted reference from Romans 1:29-32 omits the following verse, Romans 2:1, which reads "Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things." * No credible study has ever found that children are negatively impacted by being raised in a lesbian or gay household. * Argument #2: That if same-sex marriage is legalized, polygamy will follow. * Even if this concern had a rational basis, a simpler solution to this problem would be to propose a constitutional amendment banning polygamy--which would be easily ratified--rather than fooling around with an anti-gay constitutional amendment that only one-third of Americans support. * Argument #3: That same-sex marriage would make heterosexual divorces too easy. * No, seriously. The article actually describes this as an "even greater objective of the homosexual movement" than the legalization of same-sex marriage proper. The article makes no real attempt to explain why this would happen, or how this would happen, but presumably one is expected to accept the statement at face value without giving any real thought to it. * Argument #4: That same-sex marriage would require schools to teach tolerance. * People who support same-sex marriage also tend to support tolerance education in public schools, but the former isn't essential to the