text: Marriage has always been defined as the union between one man and one woman.  Homosexuals who love each other want the same status and standing as heterosexuals.  One of the chief concerns is, if we change the definition of marriage to include same sex couples, then it will also be expanded to include other unions such as:  multiple partners, adults and children, adults and animals, and whatever can be imagined by human beings.  \n\nIt has been suggested that same sex couples be provided the same rights that marriage allows, but it is most often stated in the media that same sex couples not only want the same rights, they want the same standing or respect.  They too want to be called "married".  \n\nMany heterosexual couples are troubled by this demand because they believe marriage is a sacred trust and gift from God. They believe that marriage was instituted by God in Genesis and that God will return for his spiritual Bride in Revelation 21.  Those who are opposed to homosexual marriage would state that marriage was created by God to support the family; one man, one woman and children.  They would also state that the heterosexual family is and has been the foundation of society and culture for thousands of years.  \n\nThere are of couse exceptions in history and even presently.  There is also currently a high divorce rate but married heterosexuals would argue that failure in marriage does not justify changing the definition of what marriage is....one man and one woman.  Society often makes moral changes without considering the consequences or justifying the decision by stating what is wrong with the present model.  Abortion started this way, with the declaration that women's lives were in danger and women were killing themselves by attempting abortions at home or in back alleys under the care of unscrupulous doctors.  Abortion has now become a form of birth control with well over one million babies aborted yearly in the U.S. alone.  \n\nMany heterosexual couples see the changing of marriage to include same sex couples as fallling further and further away from what is healthy for society and farther down the road toward a loss of morality and moral standards.  They do not want marriage, which they consider sacred, changed to include other unions.  They would prefer,if same sex couples are permitted to be "married"  that same sex couples be granted the same rights but not the same name.  A different name such as "union" or the invention of a completely new word.