I believe marriage is historically and socially the union of a man and woman for the purpose of producing offspring and procreation. So gay unions does not meet this definition. But as most agree nobody should be denied the right to be with who they want and to have some way to demonstrate their commitment to each other. I voted therefore for Yes but dont call it marriage. A lot of the problems regarding gay marriage centre around the rights and privileges that come with marriage. And this invariably means money. These are simple to address in my mind. Rights of inheritance (for example) or property should be the same. Tax breaks for the purpose of rearing children should then depend on having children (adopted or otherwise). Marriage is just a word and as another poster pointed out the word itself seems to be the problem rather than the concept. Change the words and the problem goes.