Marriage was created by God (as the foundation of the family) and therefore men do not have the authority to change marriage. Any society that tries to "improve" on God's plan for humanity will bring not "equality" and sexual utopia, but instead abject moral depravity, societal collapse and chaos (Rome, 476 AD). We are well on our way. Will the younger generation figure it out in time? Only God knows. He knows how to get results, and moves history in great arcs, always preserving a remnant of true believers from which He will fashion a new whole cloth of the Holy Church, the City of God, the Body of True Believers.
NOTE: This is the third column in a series of columns related to National Marriage Week, Feb. 7-14, 2013. The second column is available here.
G.K. Chesterton observed in The Superstition of Divorce that “reformers of marriage . . . do not know what it is, or what it is meant to be, or what its supporters suppose it to be . . . .” Marriage opponents, who today seek not to reform but rather redefine marriage, appear to suffer from the problem diagnosed by Chesterton almost a century ago.
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MATING however, is a sexual impulse that these same societies hoped to channel through marriage for the aforementioned. So that identity would be more accurate. Hence virgin marriages and matrilinieage was required back then.
In MODERN times, what ancient cultures did is no longer necessary, or workable. Times and marriage has changed and endured for the better when expanded to be more inclusive. Gay couples are part of that PROGRESS.
Actually, in mordern times, traditional marriage is still just as essential to a functional society as it always was. It still provides the single, most effective method of producing and raising children to be good members of society, while at the same time, offering examples of behaviors and interactions from both sexes.
Equating homosodomite unions to this is a sign of regression as it is a false equation, providing nothing of value to society and normalizing unhealthy perversions.