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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: civil same-sex marriage causes no problem at all to society in general.

I've looked for rational arguments, preferably based on scientifical findings (and NOT on religion), for this. I can't seem to find any.

1. It doesn't affect in any way straight people who want to get married. They still can, same as before. "Traditional" families would not be affected in any shape or form.

2. It prevents forced and likely disfuncional marriages, where people wanting to build a family, but being homosexual, would have to marry someone of the opposite sex, to whom they're not really attracted.

3. It just extends a freedom and a right to more people, without curtailing any rights of others.

4. No religion would ever be obliged to perform ceremonies for those people. I'm only talking about civil-legal marriages. 

5. A civil servant would not be endorsing anything by carrying out the procedure, just doing their bureaucratic duty. If they refuse to do so, they should be relocated to other functions, with no punishment. A civil servant should just be neutral about such things.

Edit: thank you for all the contributions to a great debate! I have an appointment now and probably will only be able to resume answering tomorrow.
gpt
The obvious answer is that it inflames tensions between fundamentalist religious people and a society trending towards more progressive and secular social policies. This is certainly not an argument for why it shouldn't exist, merely an argument that it does cause something of a problem, whether its a flawed viewpoint or not. This increase in polarization is not negligible, and has served as the basis for numerous court cases and scandals. Semantics, but you should have phrased it better eh!

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