(April 1, 2013 at 8:29 pm)Insanity x Wrote: More kids is not ideal at this time. Either way being married is not necessary. A lot of the long term couples who live where I grew up were not married. They outlasted most of the married couples. One couple have like 7 kids now I think. Awesome parents. I don't intend to ever get married. The whole thing seems kind of twisted to me.
Yeah everything is different now because we live in age different then in the past.
In the past, giving the gift of life, seemed good always, and we always needed more people.
You are right marriage is not needed for a life commitment, but there is a naturally tendency for us to want society and friends and family to recognize a long term commitment. Marriage is just an expression of that desire.
I feel that desire is natural.
Right now, we are in enlightened age. We understand it's very like some people can hardly help themselves but be homosexual. While it seems others had more choice in the matter. This was apparently studies are showing (thanks to enlightening me Missluckie26).
Now it's convenient to just blame religion for all the hate towards homosexuals. But I think there is more to it than that from the naturalism perspective.
The same is true of the sanctity of marriage.
