We humans do make the rules.Again, marriage doesn't define the gender of one's parents.
It doesn't have to. Biology does that. It takes both a man and a woman—a father and a mother—to produce a child.
And as adoption demonstrates, the ability to concieve a child isn't what makes you that child's parents. A lesson reaffirmed when one parent is infertile....and they have kids by other means.
Unless you're going to argue that adoptive parents aren't parents....your argument is already DOA.
Marriage reflects this immutable biological fact, and the needs of society and of children with regard to the responsibility of fathers and mothers for their children and to each other.
Except that it doesn't. No marriage requires children or is predicated on them. And if you do have kids, there's no requirement that they be genetically related to you in order to be their parents.
Marriage is whatever say it is. As we invented it.
Marriage is what we say it is? In reality then, EVERYTHING is what we say it is. The only law against murder is because we "say" that it is illegal and the killer will be punished. Everything we do is because it is "what we say it is" All of morality, all of what is right or wrong is a human construct.
Orwell has your kind down pat.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
Mark
Yes, we do, but not all the time. The laws of nature don't change. Would you be happy if murder or pedophilia was legalized? Do you feel it would be a help or a hindrance to the human condition.
Mark