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Good is a not an objective reality in this situation. The quoted argument means that if I find or create a quote saying that polygamy or gay marriage is good for children, then it's equally legitimate and logical. Logically, marriage leads to divorce, which is commonly considered bad for children! My point is, logic relies on facts, and I don't think any camps have reached objective consensus on those.

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Nearly all arguments about policy are based on subjective values, and those values are not shared by all. There is absolutely no set of facts which can prove "gay sex is morally wrong" or "gay sex is morally acceptable".

The most one can do is show that some more generally accepted subjective value implies the a specific subjective value. A more general argument: "any act performed in private between consenting adults is morally acceptable. This implies gay sex is OK."

(That's also a specific example of a general argument which most proponents don't actually believe. See this comment thread for an example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=806581 )

I'll repeat what I wrote to another statement on this thread: Ultimately, allowed marriages are a proxy for what society at large deems "reasonable." That's why this is such an issue, and I think that most arguments otherwise, on both sides, are disingenuous.

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