Oh, so what is your hatefulness in the name of? Hmmmmmm?
Pako, it's not just a question of changing the dictionary to suit a vocal but politically correct minority. The words "consenting adults" are the crux of the biscuit, not just a few more words in a definition.
Bill and Bob, loving each other and wishing to get married, can in no way affect your morality. Nor can they possibly do any harm to any one. That's what "consenting adults" means - they are freely doing what they wish and they are not harming anyone by doing it.
There's no rational justification for making it illegal, whatsoever. It doesn't even have the baggage that is present in the abortion issue - there is a difficult line to draw between when a fetus becomes a baby, so there is a potential, non-consenting party involved.
Gay marriage cannot injure your morality if you choose not to be in a gay marriage. Seeing happy gay people may offend you, but you know what? I'm offended by seeing fat people in tiny bathing suits. I saw plenty of offensive ones on my recent vacation... but I'm not out campaiging against their right to wear little Speedos that disappear under their bellies.
I'd like to impose on Gil's good nature here, to illustrate a point. You mentioned that gay people are making a poor choice, in the face of the popular majority opinion against it.
Interracial marriages can be described in precisely the same manner. Should they be banned? Many people - the majority? - have a serious problem with it. My good friend Gil would have literally been taking his life in his hands marrying a white woman just a few decades ago and just a few degrees farther southeast. Lynchings were still happening in the 60s - and for a black man to even look twice at a white woman was a sure way to invite one.
That is a God-damned abomination. Not homosexuality. And it's got nothing to do with religion, so can it for the moment, DGB.
Or is it "OK" if Gil was just "genetically programmed" to be attracted to white women? Why isn't he simply allowed to love his wife? He's made a choice which is largely unpopular with the hyper-conservative crowd, just as if he had chosen to be gay. Being gay didn't fit his morality, so he didn't. Falling in love with a white woman did fit his morality, so he did that instead.
Consenting adults, right? No harm, no foul. So why not let other consenting adults choose their own morality, so long as they don't make you do it?
And on the children issue, DGB, I've seen gay couple who would be far better parents than many straight couples who are. Any idiots with the right plumbing can make a baby - but that doesn't give you what it takes to be a parent.