Same-sex unions are equal, but they are also physically different

Many aspects of marriage are common to other relationships. If marriage is a matter of two people who love one another there is no problem.

But you and I know that a man-woman relationship is more than that, even if the Constitution says otherwise.

What is distinctive about the union of a man and woman is the conception of a child. Conception, of course, does not always occur — it can be prevented deliberately, or it can be prevented by age or disease.