The act of uniting a man and woman for life ; wedlock ; the legal union of a man and woman for life. Marriage is a contract both civil and religious, by which the parties engage to live together in mutual affection and fidelity, till death shall separate them. Marriage was instituted
by God himself for the purpose of preventing the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, for promoting domestic felicity
and for securing the maintenance and education of children.
Websters, 1825
The important point is that its defined that way.
The abuse of power that the courts have engaged in - and which the activist SCOTUS is attempting to finalize - was to redefine the word to mean something it did not.
If language means nothing then the law falls.
They are the ones pushing it over the cliff.
I remember a Priest being asked by a teenager how those sons procreated.
Think about it.