"Except they can't. They can't give total self-gift. They can't say in honesty to God.."I am giving all that you - My God, My Creator - gave me to this other!"

That is what your feelings say. Clearly, you do not know any gays in long-term relationships. I know three such couples, two of whom have been together for over forty years, and the third for over twenty.They are just like heterosexual long-married couples. No, your ignorant prejudiced feelings about gays count for nothing.

"Children are precisely the purpose of marriage."

That is what your feelings say. Other people disagree. My wife and I did not get married to have children. Oh, children came, and we both love all three of our sons, but they were not why we got married.

No, RD, once again, you are taking your personal feelings and beliefs and insisting that they must apply to everyone else. One size, especially your size, does not fit all. And all you have given us is your own feelings. You have not given us reasons.