Marriage Debate?

I have been married twice and have been known as a serial monogamist. Marriage is very important to me and I think it is a great institution. I have recently been divorced for the second time but I still believe that marriage is great. I was the best man at my brothers wedding a couple of months ago and was trying to come up with a speech. I began my speech, "If you know who I am then you know I can not make a speech about how to keep a marriage together." Which is true, how can someone that has been married 2 times and divorced 2 times give any sort of advice on how to keep a marriage together. So I was having a hard time coming up with this speech. I thought about it for a long time. Why do I think Marriage is great? Life can be difficult at times. Sometimes the world seams like it is against you and it feels like a battle over keeping yourself alive. I have seen a lot of hardship in my life and I have had a lot of battles that I wasn't sure I would make it though. when you have that special friendship with someone that knows how to be your team mate though life they become a very important alley in your battle against the world. When you have a friendship like that then it can get to the point that both of you want to form an alliance for everything that you are ever going to have to handle, the good and the bad. You are going to get out of a battle and want to celebrate with that person. You may become to tiered to make it thought the next battle so your friend may have to jump to the front lines and cushion the blow for you until you can handle it again. That person becomes your life. You realize that every battle you both face become a battle you both have to get though because you do not want the world to win any battle against you or your friend. You become a partnership. This partnership becomes a marriage of two warriors that work together as a team to reach a happy life. Why would a couple not be able to join together? Because the Religious zealots believe that it is a sin? That makes no sense to me at all. I am not homosexual but I hope those friends of mine that are can someday feel the joy of marriage and enjoy that partnership for life. The government needs to understand that if you want to start looking at things in a religious view then they need to realize that you should "love the sinner but not the sin." Live like you are married and support each other in time of battle and life will be rewarding and happier. Let same sex marriages happen.