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Quote by: italiangm  I suggest you pick up a history book.
Historically-speaking, marriage began as a business arrangement. Brides were commodities. Dowry was a deal sweetener. Grooms were pawns in an economic alliance between families.
Government, church, divorce -- and oftentimes romance -- were not involved. Procreation, child rearing, and contract enforcement assured the orderly transfer of wealth through the predictable and repeatable cycle of arranged matrimony.
Children were property, necessary for labor, and used to assure continuity of family power and aggregation of assets.
Evntually the theists came along and wanted a piece of that action. They imposed their arbitrary and artificial moral authority on all things, including marriage, to acquire wealth and power for themselves.
What we call marriage today is a far cry from yesteryear. The definition has been fluid enough to fit whatever set of circumstances it needed to fit and has changed many times. |
And where in your history book does it show gay marriages being arranged and approved of in society's throughout history for power, wealth, assets etc.
Marriage whether you can face it or not, is still recognised world wide essentially as basically a union between a man and a woman, like it has been for all time, what ever the reasons for it happening.
The only people who disagree with this are seen rightfully as freaks.