(March 19, 2012 at 12:40 pm)StatCrux Wrote:(March 19, 2012 at 12:30 pm)Tiberius Wrote: ...and if the point of marriage was to have children, you'd have a point. The point of marriage is not to have children though; people have children without getting married, and some married people go their entire lives without having children. The whole "procreative" argument is on dodgy ground from the start.
Well, one definition of marriage is precisely that..
1601 "The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament."Catechism of the Catholic Church
That definition was made 400 years ago. Times have moved on since then.
