don't bring pedophiles into that, get your facts straight. Gay people give legal consent to having a relationship, children can not do so with adults. That's why it's a crime. How is it an argument that poles don't attract? What does that have to do with actual people? Do you mean to say that all straight people have to or will procreate? Because not everyone does and many of them choose not to, others simply can't. The purpose of marriage or even sex is not simply giving birth to children. Gay people are not deprived of any "basic human needs". Name one human need gay people are deprived of, there is none.