<...it still leaves us with a society that will grant a marriage license -- and by extension the sanction to raise children -- to the most immoral, dishonest and adulterous heterosexual, yet deny the same privilege to a religious, honest and monogamous homosexual.>

From your statement above, you would think that there are no promiscuous homosexuals. Have you not ever read the Village Voice? Furthermore, you are ignoring the liberationist theorists who do not see this issue the way you see it. Ultimately, Rick, this issue decidedly not about marriage. Other than Andrew Sullivan (a man whom I respect even though I adamantly disagree with him) there are few making the “conservative” same-sex marriage argument. Finally, the remedy to encourage healthy heterosexual marriage, is to make it meaningful again. What you propose is the redefinition of the word. If words do not mean anything, everything is up to change and redefinition–like, for example, what it means to be a human being.