I wonder how the pervert patrol would react if we offered an a la carte menu in the United States: “civil partnerships” that included all the legal benefits of marriage, or real marriage without legal status. I suspect normal people would do both - have a real wedding, as a sacrament in front of God, and also file the paperwork for a civil partnership. What would the LGBTQIA freaks choose?
Chopping away at civilization.
A republic of free citizens has an interest in the formation of permanent family bonds. A dictatorship has an interest in the disintegration of family bonds, resulting in a confused, depressed, and easily herded subject population.
Did not the King of England start this nonsense by removing the recognition of marriage from the public ceremony on the church in assembly to a permission granted by the state for a license fee in order to raise revenue?
What has changed? Marriage lite won’t come without a fee to the crown.