And you still haven't told me why, beyond citing children, which is ridiculous.
Marriage become instated as a way to ensure property inheritance and to bind families together for alliances. Religion is practically an afterthought. I still have a copy of the marriage contract my great-great grandparents signed, all in Hebrew, to denote everything that was being passed back and forth.
Nowadays we have civic functions to perform all those duties. So what is marriage? Two people standing up and stating "we're together for the rest of our lives"? How does being hetero or homo change that in any way?
If you want to make a distinction for some stupid reason, call it a homo or hetero marriage. Or homo or hetero civil union. Then you have the distinction you want.
What you're asking for is to make sure the happy connotation of marriage doesn't apply to gays or the polygamous, and that the "cold" and secularized one does.
Marriage become instated as a way to ensure property inheritance and to bind families together for alliances. Religion is practically an afterthought. I still have a copy of the marriage contract my great-great grandparents signed, all in Hebrew, to denote everything that was being passed back and forth.
Nowadays we have civic functions to perform all those duties. So what is marriage? Two people standing up and stating "we're together for the rest of our lives"? How does being hetero or homo change that in any way?
If you want to make a distinction for some stupid reason, call it a homo or hetero marriage. Or homo or hetero civil union. Then you have the distinction you want.
What you're asking for is to make sure the happy connotation of marriage doesn't apply to gays or the polygamous, and that the "cold" and secularized one does.
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