LEGAL: The precedent of standing law is not to be taken lightly. The law in a America, and even in civilization as a whole, has been that same-sex marriage is not valid. To make it legal now is to overturn centuries of law.
Not too long ago Obama said it would violate jurisprudence to overturn Roe v Wade since it has now been law for close to 50 years. Really? A whole 50 years? That marriage has been between a man and a women has been law since the country began, and the law of civilization in general for thousands of years. How does jurisprudence fit into that!
MEDICAL: Same-sex attraction is a mental disorder. I posted the following a while back in another thread:
Same sex attraction is a disorder according to the American Psychological Association (APA) for most of its history, until recently.
For some folks though, this disorder is now the "non-disorder formerly known as disorder." It was a disorder in the DSM I and II published by the APA. But in the last publication, DSM IV, it was removed as a disorder. Why?
Protests by gay rights activists against the APA began in 1970 when the organization held its convention in San Francisco. The activists disrupted the conference by interrupting speakers and shouting down and ridiculing psychiatrists who viewed homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 1971, gay rights activist Frank Kameny worked with the Gay Liberation Front collective to demonstrate against the APA's convention. At the 1971 conference, Kameny grabbed the microphone and yelled, "Psychiatry is the enemy incarnate. Psychiatry has waged a relentless war of extermination against us. You may take this as a declaration of war against you." To put is bluntly, the American Psychological Association buckled and caved to protesters, and therefore have no legitimacy now.
So the APA can be, and is, wrong. The current APA thinks that they were "wrong back then," and "right now." But certainly, the opposite can be true, that is was right back then and wrong now. I think that they were right before and wrong now because they now fear liberal retaliation and political correctness that did not exist before.
Let me add one other thing to that post: The APA is actually a lobbying group, and less than half the psychiatrists in America belong to it. They lobby on Capitol Hill and therefore engage in political correctness to garner support. Their removal of homosexuality from the list of disorders was purely a political move, and had no basis in science.
Its better to do the right thing badly than to do the wrong thing well.