"Most people who believe in the sanctity of conventional marriage to support a conventional family structure would disagree.   They would contend that the homosexuals already have exactly the same rights at present and want separate rights to take their lifestyle into account.

Many would also contend that the homosexual lifestyle can never sit easily beside a strong family structure and should always remain separate.
These separate right will of course impact on the existing rights of the majority......Its simple common sense." - Akenaton

How is the right to marry, for example, a 'seperate right'? Please don't tell me 'well, they have the right to marry a member of the opposite sex', as that is a silly contention, as well as a reminder of the often sad consequences in the past when homosexuals often did marry, in order to appease convention, or to try to overcome their own natures, leading to miserable relationships plagued by sexual disfunction, adulterous behaviours, and marriage breakdown.

What exactly do you think 'the homosexual lifestyle' is? If you are going by the crowd of young men who descend on the gay bars every weekend, some squealing delicately and others flexing their manly biceps, well, that is equivalent to stating that a bar full of drunk and roaring young football fans is 'the heterosexual lifestyle'. There's a lot more to life than where you go and what you do to entertain yourself when you are young.

The real 'homosexual lifestyle' is pretty much like everyone else's: get up, go to work, come home, make dinner, make the kids do homework if you have kids, do housework, walk the dog, on weekends do the yardwork, maintain your property, etc.

You say: "These separate right will of course impact on the existing rights of the majority......Its simple common sense" but I cannot see how this would be true. What is the impact? How does a same sex marriage in any way affect anyone else's marriage?