> I’m not sure I agree. I don’t know what kind of outcomes we can expect from letting same sex couples raise children and I’m not in favor of experimenting on kids to find out.

Good thing those experiments have already been done, and found no difference in outcomes.

> I’d say the goal of every organism is to flourish so I guess that’s been our goals since forever.

Clearly not, when huge societies like China tightly control population growth.

"Humanity" has no goal. You could say as a species we have an evolutionary drive to propogate, but we ignore or overcome our evolutionary limitations all the time. And more importantly, not every member of that species feels that need to propogate. Homosexuality occurs in many different species. So why should they be held to an evolutionary standard that doesn't apply to them?

Since when is the goal of human society to produce a flourishing human population? We're already well on our way to being overpopulated, and I'd argue there's a pretty large chunk of people who aren't flourishing right now. If anything, letting LGBTQ+ adopt children would do more for modeling and promoting a stable family unit than leaving those kids in foster care.

It's not just paper. There are legal benefits that come with marriage.

I'm embarrassed that it's even still an issue. They should be legal.