[only1percent]

Divorce, feminism and pre-marital cohabitation among heterosexual people have done ten times more to change the institution of marriage in the West than gay marriage can or possibly will.

Fifty years ago, when asked to define the key provisions marriage, a reasonable person could have answered "a lifelong union in which a man assumes from a woman's father the obligation to support the woman and the right to be obeyed by the woman, and pursuant to which a woman grants sexual access she would otherwise withhold and agrees to bear and raise the children of the union of the union with the man's support and subject to his oversight."

There is literally not one word of that equation which is presently accurate.

[Between the Lines]

"Divorce, feminism and pre-marital cohabitation among heterosexual people have done ten times more to change the institution of marriage in the West than gay marriage can or possibly will."

Divorce, feminism, pre-marital cohabitation and homosexual marriage are all just symptoms of the same disease, Liberalism. Liberalism is what has been attacking the family for decades and will not cease until everything God intended as normal is considered abnormal and everything abnormal is considered normal.

[Grig]

"Divorce, feminism and pre-marital cohabitation among heterosexual people have done ten times more to change the institution of marriage"

Those things exist OUTSIDE the institution of marriage. Gay marriage is a hostile infiltration of the institution.

[Grig]

"Fifty years ago, when asked to define the key provisions marriage..."

The traditional definition of marriage in Canadian law came from the 1800's and wasn't anything like what you say it would have been (and was) just 50 years ago.

"There is literally not one word of that equation which is presently accurate. "

My wife and I have a very happy and traditional marriage, I guess we run in different social circles than you do for we know many others with such marriages. It is still the ideal that nearly everyone aspires to and people hold in respect those who manage to pull it off. The fact that many fall short of it is not relevant as that is a reflection of problems in society, not problems with the institution of marriage itself.