Back in the ‘70s, feminists advocated the abolition of marriage claiming it was “sexist” and “patriarchal”. When that didn’t happen, I figure the left decided on another way to achieve their goals: make marriage so utterly devoid of meaning it would basically define it out of existence. Taking away the gender and numerical requirments for legal marriage is a way for them to accomplish their goal, i.e., replace the natural family with the all powerful state.
I think you are exactly right. They don’t want to do away with the state involvement marriage, it gives them massive control of the culture when they are able to punish those who don’t buy into their take on it, and creates many broken homes that are often dependant on the state. They love that many have been conditioned to think that marriage comes from and is defined by the state, that it is simply another lousy gov’t contract that can be enacted, dissolved, and resumed between any parties that the state deems can do so. I would say that goes back much farther than the advent of impossibilities like “gay marriage.” Pope Leo XIII wrote about this about 130 years ago, although of course not in the context of “gay marriage.”
Freegards