Marriage itself is an archaic custom dating from a different age. Long gone is the idea that Marriage is the perfect union in the eyes of god, not that it ever existed that way to begin with. Marriage has always been a social contract, a business venture, a merger of two families, in fact the majority of marriages in time have been prearranged. From the Middle-East to Europe, The parents of men and women have been selling them off to the highest bidder, just like a company, there was no such thing as love, people were just expected to deal with whoever their parents thought appropriate to marry. Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage claim that allowing it would be to degrade the human race, to destroy everything that marriage has stood for, but the truth is Traditional Marriage has already been destroyed. Traditional Marriage was destroyed when people began following their hearts, and find love, thus destroying the very economic principals marriage was created to solve. The proof is in the numbers, in this day and age 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. Clearly allowing people to follow their heart and allow them to marry on a whim is what will ultimately result in the destruction of all marriage. Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage say that it harms children and destroys family values. What is more destructive to children? A family with two dads who love them, or a family wrought with physical violence and anger, the ability to only see one of your parents at a time, and the depression that follows a divorce? Clearly if anything at all is to blame for the destruction of Traditional Marriage, its the heterosexual relationships of our time, the accessibility of divorce and lack of interest in the well being of our children as a result of such divorces. So why not give them a chance, clearly the more dangerous marriage any one that fails. Not that all homosexual marriages will work, in fact many will not, that is assured in our time where getting a divorce is easier then getting a job, but if half the marriages right now are doomed to fail, why not increase the number of marriages and push that percentage down. If it doesn't work, and society really does disintegrate due to two men holding hands, society can reevaluate it, but for now give it a try, you never know if something works or not until you try it.