I’ve always written it as the potential for procreation, but so much has been made of infertile couples and elderly, I’m thinking of being married within ‘the image of potential procreation” or something like that. Some way to word it that includes those couples with the potential within that couple of being procreative or mirroring in themselves that ability to have been procreative.
“One man and one woman” would pretty much cover it.
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That is correct- however, procreation IS still the criteria for marriage- the government took over marriage for the sole purpose of incentivizing couples to procreate to create future generations of taxpayers- Marriage was, before that, a moral institution that allowed non DEVIANTS the privilege of being married- (however, religious preachers COULD deny marriage between certain heterosexuals too, if they felt the union would be detrimental- marriage was never a right- if it were a right, it couldn’t be denied to anyone- just like having a drivers license is not a right- you MUST meet certain criteria
The fact that some couples are infertile has no bearing on the marriage issue- They are allowed under the marriage ‘rules’ to be married- because what they seek is not immoral- polygamists, pedophiles, gay people etc are all seeking approval of their immoral behavior, claiming that they are deserving of respect and dignity that they think marriage will afford them-
The issue of marriage has to do, to put it bluntly, with morality- not procreation so much- The government took it over for the purpose of financially incentivizing couples to raise healthy future tax payers who will support the government via taxes- but it still held that marriage was only allowed for moral purposes- those things considered immoral were never allowed- brothers could not marry sisters, mothers, fathers etc- people could not marry their pets- etc etc etc
Now however, the whole issue is about the gay agenda trying to get homosexuality off the list of immoral behavior, and if they succeed, then there would be no reason to deny them marriage- that is what this whole gay marriage issue is about- IF the supreme court rules in their favor- it will no longer be allowed to consider homosexuality as immoral
Put bluntly and to put it in a non politically correct manner, It’ a morality issue- much as the gay agenda loathes to admit it-