then the Left will do all it can to push same sex marriage down everyone’s throat for the sheer enjoyment of watching the Right destroy their cherished institution rather than ‘share’ it with gays. I’d prefer to engage in the process of strengthening the institution and arguing that bringing same sex couples INTO marriage strengthens THOSE relationships that are going to happen any way and to foster a sense that the OBLIGATIONS of marriage are just as much an obligation to same sex partners as opposite sex partners and that standards will be upheld in the rearing of children for both sets of partners......................................................................................This from a lesbian.
Well that answers my question , even if not the answer I would have given, it is close enough.
She does get it.
Babboons do not really marry , they do not mate at random either. Generally a troop of Babboons will include twenty to fourty adult females who choose to mate with the male leader , the strongest and the smartest. A male leader Baboon has a temp position , after a few years he will be exausted or overmatched by a stronger male , then he is often exiled while his replacement is killing his youngest offspring.
Lions do something simular , not because of a relationship to babboons but because this is a natural consequence of their imperitives and circumstances .
There are not really any human societys that have this program , certainly not the more successfull ones . The reason is the time and investment required to mature a human child.
Pretty often your body is smarter than you are , and the human body is built for cheating. It has an imperitive to reproduce even if the associated mind disagrees. Human societys are the result of human social evolution and the successfull ones have learned to cope with the animal nature of the human body , marrage with one or only a few women is the most common model and polagamy comes in a distant second, polyandry has an even more distant third place.
Coming in last by far is the idea of homosexual marrages, this is not unknown in history but is exceedingly rare because it does not serve the first purpose of marrage , ensuring that the genetic progeny of a man is attached to the productive power of that same man.
Cheating the system has been a constant threat , and is more or less drasticly responded to with taboos and punishments , because the bargan that attaches a man to his children is a necessity to the children and the children are a necessity to the society.
Men are not prone to kill the children of their mates preceeding mate , or are they? Keeping a couple together long enough to ensure the survival of an adequite number of children requires a society not find this by experiment.
Only in very recent times have single women begun to feel adequate to raise their children without an attached male , this is a profound change and the shakeout might be the end of real marrage , it is already the end of social opprobrium for experimenters , it may be the end of social encouragement for pairing.
