WHAT IS THE STATE'S INTEREST IN PROCREATION?

OKAY, no matter how you feel about the decision not to throw out a law that claims marriage is between one man and one woman, the decision also turned on "the state's interest in procreation"

 

Here's the last paragraph:

The court also found that the state has an interest in promoting procreation and that the General Assembly "has not acted wholly unreasonably in granting recognition to the only relationship capable of bearing children traditionally within the marital unit."

(If they have "not acted wholly unreasonably" how unreasonably did they act?  The decision is a bad one, since there is no connection between
"granting recognition of traditional marriage" and any state interest, except to create more taxpayers.  Certainly marriage does not change the  capability of procreation...or, confer much benefit to either partner or children, and marriage is the cause of every divorce!!!!)

Court upholds Md. gay marriage ban

By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press Writer Tue Sep 18, 6:43 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_re_us/maryland_gay_marriage

I think that the "state's interest" may be in non-creation instead of procreation, if there is to be a "state" in the future...

Les, if you've answered this on the website, please point us to it, otherwise, I think we ought to establish exactly what the "state's interests" are, from OUR perspective (the state (at least in the USA) is NOMINALLY We the People~...).