“Unless you want a simple legal status that ties a man to his children and their mother.”
It’s called a birth certificate.
“It’s called a birth certificate.”
That argument is great if you support so called gay marriage.
If marriage isn’t a legal status designed to protect and nurture the children resulting from a union of a man and a woman... then what is the argument against any two people marrying?
Societies have celebrated marriages for thousands of years... at it’s core it’s a fertility ritual and cultures that want to survive need to return to this definition.