Gay marriage is quite a good dilemma as far as I concern. I'm not surprised by the fact that some people are still bashing on this issue simply because there is something unatural to that. Marriage represents legally the union of two persons. The question is why should two persons want to unite themselves, to procreate nd found a family, no? To populate the world they know? A kind of conquer over the natural elements and the other animals? A plain survival instinct? If marriage is defined like that, then how gay marriage can be justified? Two people of the same sex cannot reproduct, (unless they are asexual, a exception I'm not aware humans are capable of), sure they might be able to grow children from a poor country, in a better way that they would ever expect uf not being adopted by a same sex couple. And how is it different then people who adopt poor children because they are enable to have childrn (Angelina Jolie!!). Ok, but these people are natural exception, and I have difficulty to believe that gays are. But at the extreme, everyone is homosexual, they still have to fuck with the other sexe to breed and make their kind survive, an instinct which will probably be stronger than any sexual taste. And is it possible that any of these homosexual with find no pleasure compare to their necessary sexual aventures with the opposite sex?

Why people who love homosexual sex just doesn't call their homosexual partner friend? Law are for the society, and homesuxal activities cannot make the society last, even more the human race. Why should it be legalized?

The answer to your question, assuming it wasn't rhetorical, is that marriage -isn't- defined that way. It may be that most who marry also reproduce, but the elderly, the sterile, and those who simply don't want children are also allowed to marry. Making the ability to biologically reproduce a necessary condition for the legal validity of marriage would be more of a revolution in law than letting homosexuals marry each other. I see no reason why marriage can't also function as a celebration of dedicated carnality (monogamy) and domestic happiness. Being gay, of course, I may be biased. I also see that the question is one on which reasonable people may disagree, but arguments of the "marriage is about reproduction" ilk are nonstarters because they ignore a large number of marriages already recognized as valid.

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How about not getting married at all? Is it a sin?

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Yes. Marriage is one of the Sacraments of Christian religion. That mean it is mandatory for every Christian to get married (in order to spawn more Christians)

There is even a punishment reserved for men who died unmarried, according to Christian lore, they are condemned to tie bundles of sand with a rope in Hell for eternity... or something like that.