It is, if you don't see the world through a Christian conservative lens. It may seem self-evident to you, because you didn't grow up in a SSM family and your life was stable, just as it might seem self-evident to you that the Universe was designed because on Earth you would see humans designing complex things.
But both are naïve assumptions.
Those are post-hoc rationalizations for their opposition to SSM, not their first reasons.
On to Stanley Kurtz, A simple Google search will also tell you that Kurtz's interpretation of statistics has been debunked several times, not only with the Netherlands, but Scandinavia also (where they only give same-sex couples a morsel of the rights under titles other than "marriage") Enlighten yourself at
Media Matters,
Hollandaise or
Slate.
That statement is loaded with all kinds of assumptions, but the most glaring one is the assumption that families with same-sex couples are inherently unstable, and families with opposite-sex couples are stable. Why do you say that?
It still is in Israel. But we don't live in Israel. We live in a country where the church is Constitutionally separated from the State. This means if your church marries you, the state will not necessarily recognize it, and vice-versa. In the United States, all civil marriage is a contract. So all this about "returning" marriage to ecclesiastical law is nonsense.
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