That certainly helped the Supreme Court of Vermont make its decision to require the legislature to legaliuze either gay marriages or gay domestic partnerships, and moved the Vermont legislature to carry it out. There are some Jews who, after wrestling with Leviticus and halakha, have decided to affirm the potential sacredness of gay and lesbian sexuality. Some argue that the text had no knowledge about, and therefore could not forbid, serious and stable gay or lesbian relationships. Come out of the closet. That is, I think we have a positive obligation to encourage the use of marriage as one form of sacred expression of gay sexuality, just as I think we have the obligation to encourage marriage as one form of sacred heterosexual sexuality.
Men rule over women in each household as they do in the society at large.
The main intent of sexuality to procreate. Gay and lesbian sexual relationships are not as likely to lead to procreation as is male-female sex. So they may violate Rule 2. And for different reasons, they break Rule 1. So gay male relationships were denounded as abominations.