Close - it's not even a privilege - it's an obligation two people undertake (ideally) prior to engaging in conduct which might reasonably be expected to produce children, for the purpose of maximizing the chances that said children will survive to become productive adults.
i meant privilege granted by the government- Shoudl have made that clear
privilege: A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual
you are right- peopel don’t auromatically enjoy privilege when it coems to marriage- they must be granted that privilege- hence why peopel can’t just marry whwetver they want- government won’t grant that priviledge fro soemoen to marry say a rock or tree or whatever
(of course peopel can act outside of marriage, but they certainly don’t have a right to marriage, nor even a priviledge to get married UNLESS the government grants them that privieldge)
The whoel premise behind govenrment foisting hte holy sanctitty from the church and bastardizing hte institution of marriage was os that future geenrations coudl be raised as normally and healthy as possible to contribute taxes to support the govenrment- The government’s grantign of marriage has nothign to do with honorign God any logner- it’s strictly abotu geenratign revenue- so hte hwoel argument by gay groups that htey have a ‘right’ to be married is BS- and it’s just shockign htat lawyers have NOT made thsi clear to the courts who ruled in favor of gay marriage-