And your description is superb. Those are enough to justify same-sex marriage standing alone.

AND, to ignore "love", the sense of attachment in the eyes of the community and themselves, the feeling of belonging and devotion, those are all possible without marriage and yet seem to be enhanced when it's there for all the world to see and the legal system to recognize.

To ignore, denigrate, minimize the "love" aspect is to do yourself a disservice. And one wonders how someone could be so blind as to ignore the liberal sense of fairness in this adjustment to our society. My guess is that it's a bad day for you and you're trying to pick a fight with a poor, defenseless, sick old man. A pathetic wretch of a person, on their last legs, unable to string two neurons together, one step away from "The Home", who forgets. That's all, forgets. Can't remember what I forget. :-)