Skylar
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..Marriage a social construct. We invented it to meet the needs of society. Some societies used romantic love as their basis of marriage. Others arranged marriages with the participants not even meeting until the wedding. Some had two participants. Others had polygamy. Some recognized marriage as a joining of equals. Some recognized marriage as an inherently dominant and subbordinate relationship.
And each of them was marriage...
And all of them were for the benefit of children who would inherit the estate and who society needed to have both a mother and father (at least one of each, possibly more) for the best benefit of role modeling for their future citizens. Boys became men like their fathers. Girls became women like their mothers. Society still has that pressing need today.
No one is required to have kids or be able to have them in order get married. Why then would we exclude gays from marriage because of their failure to meet a requirement that doesn't exist and applies to no one?