[tortoise]

As any Sociologist will admit marriage is the vehicle for wealth generation and as many have pointed out the fundamental building block of society in general.

Family is, not marriage. It is a distinction that matters, and which many people here are oblivious to. "Marriage" is currently just a government bureaucratic institution, not to be confused with anything relating to "family".

Those two words stopped being synonymous a long time ago. Its time to stop pretending they are the same, because it certainly won't be true as long as the government is defining it. Marriage was nothing more than a popular social mechanism for achieving family. Family is not dependent on marriage, nor vice versa.

[ijcr]

Whoa,there hoss!

"Marriage" is currently just a government bureaucratic institution, not to be confused with anything relating to "family".

God defined marriage...and it is in the Common Good that government protects it.

Family is not dependent on marriage, nor vice versa.

May, I recommend a day in Probate Court...where vice versa,marriage and family meet in the arena of judicial mayhem.