Question I want to raise

[kılıç_mehmet]

Why should one do that, really?
They enjoy the same legal benefits, true, but they do not enjoy the same social acceptance and burden, the responsibility that is associated with marriage. And I don't think that society ever did expect such a thing from homosexual couples anyways.
It's a middle path, I believe, that is acceptable, yes?

Kılıç_mehmet,

The question I posed was to generally Christian opponents of the legal recongition of same sex marriages.

Anyway when I refer to the legal recognition of same sex marriages. Because such marriages are already occurring, they are just not recognised as such by law in most countries. In my country for example two people of the same sex marrying each other arent arrested or such an act is illegal. Such marriages arent recognised by the government as marriages as opposed to civil unions or domestic partnerships.

Well, I don't have to be christian to oppose it though. Besides, I don't think that Christianity has anything to do with what kind of legal benefits the Australian state grants to gay couples. However, marriage is something that goes beyond economic benefits.
Marriage is something that is both a legal and a social thing. Recognition by law makes it a marriage by law, but this is not what activists strive for.
Marriage here is just a symbolic gesture. A gesture in which gay couples are put on the same level as a heterosexual couple, the traditional norm of marriage, which is able to produce children and create a family that complies with the bare minimum social standards.