Election Thread

[Chesspiece_face]

The ritual and custom of marriage far predates "the state." He does not have it backwards.

Occhi

lifelong monogamous relationships also far predates any type of human culture, religion, or humanity in general. the factors that contribute to why a social unit maintains these types of relationships is vast. being that the argument towards religion is only a couple thousand years old whereas monogamous relationships have existed for millenia reveals the argument for what it is: ad hoc. not only ad hoc but fairly hypocritical, the argument itself supports and reinforces the religion itself more than it supports and reinforces marriages

there are massive societal reprocussions to altering the form of relationships the individual units maintain within our society. 99.99999999% of these would still exist even if there were no religions. We as a society, have a great level of interest in seeing that we maintain the status quo. And thereing lies the problem with the religious concept of marriage. you've got a group of approximately 10% of your population essentially saying "hey, we agree with you, marriage is important and we want to be a part of this as well." they want to contribute to this idea of the value of marriage and to society as well. the use of the religious argument pushes this group into an underground and in turn further breaks down the motivation for individuals to adhere to the idea of lifelong monogamous relationships. if religions really cared about preserving these relationships and maintaining them they would be inclusive to anyone anywhere that wanted to support it. instead they sacrifice reinforcing marriage in exchange for ideology and dogma.