"For Aristotle, the irreducible core of a polity is the family. Thus, Aristotle begins his
Politics not with a single individual, but with a description of a man and a woman together in the family, without which the rest of society cannot exist. He says: «First of all, there must necessarily be a union or pairing of those who cannot exist without one another.» Later, he states that «husband and wife are alike essential parts of the family.» The family is the nursery of virtue, which reaches its perfection in the polis. «Every state is [primarily] composed of households», Aristotle asserts. Without the family, there are no villages, which are associations of families, and without villages, there is no polis. In other words, without households—meaning husbands and wives together in families—there is no state. In this sense, the family is the prepolitical institution. The state does not make marriage possible; marriage makes the state possible. Homosexual marriage would have struck Aristotle as an absurdity since a polity cannot be founded on its necessarily sterile relations. This is why the state has a legitimate interest in marriage—because, without it, it has no future." - Robert R. Reilly,
Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything, "Homosexuality and the Greeks"
We're supposed to keep in mind how much worse things are now than under Saddam Hussein, but under his regime, about 40% of the Iraqi population were forcibly recruited into the state security apparatus, spying on their neighbors on pain of death if they didn't produce actionable intelligece.