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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
If the purpose of marriage is itself, as the ancient Greeks believed, to force a man and a woman into an "unnatural" alliance in order to produce and then protect the children
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The procreation angle does come up occasionally with the same-sex marriage question. There's always someone who says "but marriage is about raising a family, gay couples can't make babies, therefore they don't need (shouldn't be allowed) to get married!"
Funny how they never seem to extend that notion to its logical conclusion, which would be to restrict marriage to only those people who are both able and willing to procreate. We don't require straight people to prove that they are fertile and desirous of offspring in order to get a marriage license, we don't nullify their marriages if they fail to reproduce or find out that they can't or decide they don't want to. So obviously the "procreation argument" is utter nonsense from a legal perspective.