My Relative on my fathers side was a transsexual sounding man, as in a man who sounds like a girls and acts like one. His parents lived in denial of his obvious behavior and he to never came out of the closet, so they got him married to a beautiful women who was a doctor herself and she was also the only daughter of that family, the guy could not copulate with her and perhaps she discovered he has relations with Guys and threatened him, he ended up killing and dumping her body in the well, the parents also seemed to have some thing to do with it.
So now all of them are behind bars including the father. Why should such a stupid thing happen? We must stop these religious nut bags who have a childish level of understanding the world stop forcing on everyone their morals that lead to violence... let them marry who they want.
I have a lost all respect for Obaman, he is not a man of his word he is just a clever talking politician, however i think you miss understood what he meant.
There is a saying, "War is old men talking and young men dieing". Obama sent them their, he had a choice to with draw from the wars. So he must have meant it in the sense "i should be their fighting for the decisions i make not young soldiers".
Well, the POTUS is the Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces, so there is nothing wrong in him saying, "On his behalf". But something like "for his beliefs" or "for his cause" or "for his benefit" etc would have been wrong.
As for the topic, yeah marriage is a man-made institution anyway, it has no merit in the eyes of nature. So, a homosexual marrying another one, no probs as long as they don't trouble anyone else. But, of course such a relationship is of no productive value, from nature's POV.
Yeah, I meant evolutionary benefits, which btw is the 'product' or the 'purpose'. Pleasure, good sleep etc are the by-products which are awesome .
PS: I don't wish to go off-topic anymore.