Its radical, anarchic individualism. There should be no social unit, other than the government And its been going on for decades, starting with “no fault” divorce and then moving on to living together and “palimony” to gay marriage to “any” marriage.
The thing a lot of people don’t understand is that you can’t have easy divorce laws and quickie, Las Vegas-style marriage laws and then draw the line at gay marriage or polygamous marriage. They all undermine the family social unit. We either take marriage seriously as a life-long male/female social unit that can only be broken in the most serious of situations or we don’t.
Applause.
We have sawn off the branch we were sitting on, because it was convenient for us.
Now we’re bitching because the fall of the branch is accelerating.
I see no way, however, to reverse this process, short of perhaps total societal collapse and rebuilding, painful lessons learned.
You CAN limit marriage to mean whatever you want it to mean.
The problem comes when you allow homosexual marriage. THEN you have “no rational basis” to deny any other type of relationship one chooses to be involved in.
It becomes a meaningless instutition. The government then has no interest anymore. Now, IMHO, we get rid of divorce courts, alimony, and the myriad things people choose to fight over, except as civil cases.
And those pesky children...