RE: "Jesus would rather kill, not marry, gay people" - Franklin Graham
July 26, 2018 at 12:31 pm
(July 26, 2018 at 11:54 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Anthropologists describe marriage as originally being a social ritual aimed at alerting people to the change in sexual availability of two people within a community, with the obvious function of securing patrilineage of the offspring for the male and ensuring the profit of his genetic material. I think that's a reasonable explanation, just as sure as I am that it's not relevant to how marriage functions today.But often it's had a political function too and in most societies population control and distribution has been a government matter .
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