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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
So, why not bar the door on all future marriages, straight or otherwise? That too would satisfy your money concerns.
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Although I am no proponent of breeding, most everyone else in this world is. That is the reason the social institution of marriage was created in the first place. To provide a social support structure to facilitate breeding.
Throughout human history, one man and one woman have come together and created children. This has propogated the species. Somewhere along the way, people got it in their minds that it would be a good idea to have the man and the woman who could create children together to stay together for life. They called this a marriage and entering into it conferred certain legal rights and obligations.
I didn't come up with this concept. Someone else did a long time ago. But I know the rationale behind it - breeding. And it is something that every human society has adopted, although quite a few of those societies also allowed plural marriages where a man could have as many wives as he could afford to support.
So when those of you who try to argue that historical/traditional reasons somehow can be used to justify allowing gay marriage, you conveniently leave out that many societies/religions have historically/traditionally allowed plural marriage.
