Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.
Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Marriage should be reinforced, not redefined.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.
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