James Spiegel takes an opposing viewpoint in this article to one of the biggest reasons presented to support homosexual marriage – that withholding the right is unjust. He instead argues that it would keep within the bounds of justice to ban homosexual marriage. He describes heterosexual union as having a special value to society due to it an indispensable means for human birth. He continues on that thought that what has a special societal value deserves to have special recognition and sanction. When civil ordinances recognize homosexual unions as being on the same level as heterosexual unions, this causes the special value to society inherent in straight marriage to be rejected, and it is not right to deny those in straight relationships that
