"It's my birthday, so vote against 'Gay Marriage'"

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That's more or less the German model, although we still call it marriage. People can only get married at a registrar's office. Priests don't have the legal right to conduct a legally binding union. Many couples have a church wedding in addition to their civil marriage, but that is just a religious ceremony.

You can't marginalize something that only existed in fantasies.

The traditional family definitely did and does exist, but I'm at a loss as to how you could possibly marginalise it? Unless your belief is that if it's not actively being promoted, then it's being marginalised, which is silly.

I define "traditional marriage" as simply a union between a man and a woman for the purpose of the family structure that follows said union. There's nothing fictional or fantastic about it.

By "marginalize" I mean the destructive effects that often befall the participants within an individual family structure. Sure, children often do just fine in split families--but not always, and they frequently do suffer when parents split. I think opening the the definition of marriage to include other kinds of couples minimizes the positive effects of solid traditional marriages. If you're really going to go there, then you have to at least reconsider the legality of plural marriage, as an example.

Now, as has been suggested, you can do away with marriage entirely if you want to be equitable in the shadow of immorality (i.e. give immorality even par with morality). I expect the end result to be more harm than good, though.

What evidence do you have that 'gay marriage' is harmful to children?

Maryland is about to vote on legalizing gay marriage? My own state of Washington, even as we speak, is making legalization of same sex marriage a reality! It's passed the state senate, and is expected to fly through the state house, and then will go to the desk of Governor Christine Gregoire, who has promised to sign it into existence.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I here this "One Man, One Woman" argument a lot.

Here's an idea, if the Christians want marriage to be between one man and one woman, then it should be a religious institution with no government involvement. As it is now, Marriage is a government institution, and as such, it must follow the secular laws of man, and not the dogma of Christianity.

I'm Christian yet I do support gay marriage,