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And the reason those arguments failed was because race was a suspect class for discrimination and because aside from race, interracial marriages were just like any other (e.g. one man and one woman joined together in marriage). Homosexual marriage is something quite different, but we'll see how it works out.
There is nothing legally more different for two men or two women to get married as compared to a man and a woman than there is between two people of the same race getting married as compared to two people of different races getting married. Legal marriage is about establishing a legal kinship. There is nothing that a male spouse can do better for a female spouse than a female spouse can do for a female spouse, not that is required by law. And there is nothing that a female spouse can do better or at all for a male spouse than a male spouse could do for that male spouse, again, not that is required by laws.