If marriage (between one man and one woman) was not important to a society, why does it exist?
If Western Civilization survives this era, our descendants will look back at this time and name it the CRAZY TIMES.
All the normal rules that allow for people to function successfully in a society are being tossed aside in the name of everyone doing what they feel like doing. This will lead to Chaos.
There is a natural order of things and I believe we are near a point of a major backlash. The left has shown they can rule by the tyranny of the courts. They will not be happy when the courts begin to rule against them.
Homosexuals and feminist won their battles years ago. Most American were ready to just live and let live.
But that was not enough for them. They keep pushing and pushing not for tolerance but celebration of their lifestyle. And if you are not celebrating with them, you must be demonized and destroyed.
Weakening marriage is just another step on the long road to destroying western culture.
I’ve concluded:
Conservatism is the realization that many social/political/economic norms were achieved as the result of long, hard, expensive lessons - and that to discard those norms for simple personal want of understanding them is to doom future generations to re-learning those lessons thru the same long, hard, expensive processes.
While we don’t like to say that marriage is entirely about procreation, it is. Every other benefit people are trying to enjoy without procreating exists PRECISELY because a man and woman living together for a prolonged period have a strong tendency to reproduce. Remove procreation from that institution, and expand the institution to benefit others for whom procreation is a preposterous notion, and society will learn the hard way to re-enact M/F marriage as, again, a unique and cherished institution.