Marriage is not a right. It’s an artificial construct that doesn’t happen in nature. It also involves a contract between at least 2 parties, needing agreement between them all. Therefore it is not a right. Many people who are heterosexual end up not married, unable to find someone to love them. Do they have a right to force someone into marriage with them? No. Yet by these fools you’d think everyone should be able to line up at the marriage department and receive a partner.
Actually, the concept of marriage DOES exists in nature.
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/11-animals-that-mate-for-life/old-faithful
A man and woman committing to each other to form a single familial unit and attempt to produce children out of that union is as natural a thing as exists. That is what marriage is. If a man and woman do that, they are "married" whether a state recognizes it or not.
At the same time, if homosexuals want to pretend to be "married" to each other, it doesn't matter if the state acknowledges them or not, THEY AIN'T MARRIED.
Having a state recognize something doesn't make it so.
If the state were to recognize a gay "marriage" it would no more make it an actual marriage than the state recognizing this guy as a cat would make him an actual cat.
Bull F**k*** Pucky. Marriage was devised to solidify society and produce a stable environment for families to grow and prosper. It was WELL understood that homosexual unions produced no children and therefore no stability for society. They also knew that homosexual activity destabilized societies and that diseases were passed from those that (Went both ways) to all concerned - Man, Woman and Children.
Romans, Greeks, Persians and other societies would not promote soldiers who practiced such activities - with a few notable exceptions. Most (not all) of those children produced from the proper Male/Female relationships ended up diseased in either the mind or in the body and never amounted to anything.
line up at the marriage department and receive a partner.
This is what always frustrated me about the distribution of condoms in our schools.
If I have a “right” to a condom, don’t I also have a right to a willing and voluptuous partner?
You give me a free shot glass, but where’s the booze?
Not true, some animals mate for life (their version of marriage) and never seek another partner again
Look it up....
Marriage has been around since Adam and Eve. But the State wasn’t involved until around the 1700’s.
That is correct. The third party to the contract is the body of citizens represented by the government. The purpose of the contract is to protect the rights of the children that are produced in the union. The duty of the government is to secure those rights, and the marriage contract delegates that duty to the two people who created the child.