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Originally posted by Rudey
In regards to heterosexual couples - I think the whole idea of couple beings married but not in families is ridiculous. Then why marry? What is the point? You can stay together without a piece of paper. Heck you can have a ceremony and make vows towards each other. Why marry? The disintegration of the family is something that has occured gradually and I believe firmly that it should be prevented.
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So marriage is only about children now? That doesn't hold up historically at all. That's a recent thing. Marriage was originally, and for several millenia, about merging powers, economic benefits and alliances. Children, if they had them and they lived, were about extending the families power. Conservatives have rewritten marriage to make it into something ultra-romantic, which it has only become in the last century, possibly.
It's nice that we have the luxury to make marriage about love and security nowadays instead of power and alliances, but you can't change history, even if you try. Marriage has been an evolving institution since it was created.
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