The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.
Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way.
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.