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I am simply looking for your reasoning behind why they choose to draw the line there, eventhough there is nothing besides the gender of both people involved in the couple that separates them from all those other couples that they do endorse. You don't seem to accept that if we allow the government to draw an arbitrary line, with no basis for that line besides gender, then they can move that line to restrict couples even further, without explainations for why.
Just stating that it is for the "general welfare" is not an expanation of why that line is for the "general welfare". I could say that restricting heterosexual marriage to only those couples who plan to have children is for the "general welfare", and I could even effectively argue this point. It would even be acceptable to me. But the rules of marriage contradict that that is why the government is restricting marriage to only heterosexual couples, with no regard to whether they can or plan to have children.
Again,... I think the question has to be asked.
"Are we talking about marriages or the government's recognition and validation of marriages" here?
They are not the same thing.