Maybe there are folks out there in plebiscite land who believe that there are no robust intellectual arguments against same-sex marriage or, if there are such, then they have yet to hear them.  

Well, I’d like to help.

As an opener, let’s revisit an argument that I first deployed some years back.  (Curiously, I was in Ukraine at the time observing the oddities of Australian politics from that far distant and bracingly different perspective. Anyway,