“Marriage” isn’t about love.
You can be in love and not be married.
You can be married and not be in love.
“Marriage” isn’t about sex.
You can have sex and not be married.
You can be married and not have sex.
“Marriage” isn’t about children.
You can have children and not be married.
You can be married and not have children.
“Marriage” isn’t about religion.
You can be atheist and be married.
You can be married without a preacher.
“Marriage” isn’t about rings.
You can wear rings without being married.
You can be married without exchanging rings.
Marriage is legally only about property, citizenship, kinship and inheritance. The marriage license is an application for State and Federal benefits granted a specific class of people. All arguments about love, romance, reproduction, religious dogma, and tradition and family values are personal baggage and cultural ignorance of the legal fiction called marriage. Religion doesn’t own marriage. The State does it.
