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Are there any legitimate philosophical arguments in support of same-sex marriage?

One thing I've noticed in the discussion of it is that the arguments in favor of marriage being extended to same-sex couples tend to be defensive in nature. Articles rebutting cases against same-sex marriage or academics taking issue with logic or history.

It's all well and good to show that arguments against same-sex marriage fail, but at the end of the day is the argument in favor of it really as basic as "why not?"

I've only really heard two cases being put forward in the affirmative: the "it's about love" case and the case for equality/justice.

But both seem pretty flimsy. Why exactly would the government have an interest in someone's love? A marriage between and man and a woman is expected to produce children/a family, and however dated that concept is in the age of birth control, it's at least the only reason government would care in the first place. And given the wildly different natures of "traditional" and same-sex marriage, it's hardly logical that from a equality perspective that it would be just to extend marriage to same-sex couples. Not if procreation is the end here. Bearing in mind also that marriage doesn't really discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation in a strict sense because gay men have throughout history married (women) and procreated.

I don't want to start an argument (my personal opinion is that I don't care, would prefer government not be involved at all), but I'm genuinely curious as to the philosophical foundations. Does a logical argument for its necessity exist?

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>>3993540
M'lady

On a real note, Are they worth getting into? I've been dancing around them for a few years, I don't know much about them really, or even the basic story. Plus I've read that the later ones kind of suck and only the first one is really that good.

>>3742359
fedorabeard detected

>>3703086
>flaneur

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