Mawage is what brings us togeva today. Mawage, that bwessed event, that dream wifin a dream.
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Sorry, any time someone says the word marriage I hear that speech in my head. It's a real problem, especially at weddings.
For me, anybody can define it however they want - if two people want to go jump over a broom in the woods and call themselves married...well...rock on! I'll try to bring some honey mead or blackberry wine or something
The land I was born in is heavily Christian, and so Christian morality and interpretations have been codified. The laws haven't really kept up with the times, and even though there's technically two different types of union involved when someone of the majority gets married - the religious union under god and the civil one that let's you do all the taxes, next of kin, hospital decision making stuff etc - the concepts become conflated and intertwined.
So then if you try to define marriage under law in a different way, it's seen as an attack on Christianity, which...it sorta is. But only because it's a defacto pseudo-theocratic state, and secularizing the government by changing the laws the Christians have set up within the context of their belief system is a loss of power for Christianity.
Please don't mistake this as me bashing Christianity. It's simply what reality looks like here. If I had been born in a place where another religion was practically omnipresent it would be the same game, different name. I suppose I should count my blessings that there's a secular framework that the theocrats have to work within, so it's not an outright theocracy...yay!
