One reason being that the unnatural constriction of the institution causes the participants to want to go outside the marriage and have sex, and the longer they're married the more likely that is to happen. If you don't have such constriction, you're far less likely to spend half your time fantasizing about sex with your neighbor's wife, or with a hooker, or with the Lolita down the street. It's the attraction of the verboten. Speaking of marriage, I was watching Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" on PBS the other night. It was quite depressing. Here was a wealthy mother who had just lost her husband prematurely, along with her three marriageable daughters (OK, one was a bit too young for marriage, even for those days) suddenly out on the street with no home, having to take charity from a relative so they'd have a place to live, and then having to quickly enter the husband-catching business so their fortunes would return to what they were previously. Nothing much has changed in that department. Marriage is primarily a financial arrangement, especially for women. Another case in point: In Africa, where I lived two years, many girls have their clitorises chopped off to make them less sexually responsive and so (the theory goes) more likely to be faithful to the husbands assigned to them. In India, baby girls are often murdered by their poverty-stricken families because they know they won't be able to afford the dowry that has to come along with the wife. Now, don't tell me that God has anything to do with that kind of culturally-sanctioned cruelty! There's nothing sacred about marriage, eggs. It's an institution that still favors men (because if they have sex with someone else other than their wives, it's not considered such a big deal as if the women do it), and if babies are produced by their extramarital dalliances, so be it: it's the woman's responsibility to clean up their messes. Having said all that, which you will, of course, violently disagree with, glad you like my avatar. It's the late Maya, same kitty as before, just w/o her head in the shoe. I wonder what libertarians think about marriage. They don't like the government imposing laws, so it would logically follow that they wouldn't approve of marriage. We should ask jdubhub.

The whole marriage deal is an unnatural, completely man-made institution meant to keep members of societies tractable (i.e., obedient to higher authorities) in all their many guises (i.e., religious, political, cultural, governmental, corporate bosses). Marriage is often used as an excuse for baby-making, which is the last thing we need in these days of human overpopulation, wildlife depopulation and planetary pollution. "God" has nothing to do with marriage, except as humans have manipulated the concept. I like to think that if she even exists, she's too smart for that!

You're agreeing w/me way too much. We just can't have that, and think of your reputation!

It's much more fun to live in sin, and I don't understand why gays want to emulate all the disasters of straights. They've got nothing to be jealous of.

I am going to stick to my guns on the "Gay is a choice" concept. I agree with Pub on the matter that it is far more likely to be an influence of your surroundings than to be just some inner driven factor of genetics. Biologically gay doesn't make sense. So, genetically why on earth would there be a gene to steer people in that direction. Homosexuality is un-natural by the science of biology in that it serves no reproductive purpose. Children's personalities are shaped from birth to around ages 6-8. By that age they generally are who they are going to be. Granted, adolescence and sexuality are still to be gone through, but during the early phase (0-8) of a child's development is where all the hard wiring or right and wrong, morals, ethics, etc, absolutely need to take place. Although you are right that I can not force my beliefs on to others that do not hold them. I can and do "force/teach" my beliefs to my offspring. I set the examples and I live by them. Interference in that is no one's right, so long as I am abiding by the general laws of society. (EG I am not a serial killer teaching my children to be serial killers, etc.) As for the Nazi's they probably wouldn't have gotten so far with out the early backing of the United States, and the grand interest of so many in Eugenics. (Modern day "Planned Parenthood.") If they fire up the furnaces I am sure me and those who follow my beliefs will be the targets and the modern Nazi war cry of "TOLERANCE" and "CHANGE" will be emblazoned on the hallways to our doom. I guess I've said my bit. Thanks for reading. FreeCracker4Jack Would you like to earn money writing similar articles? CLICK ME! Read more great articles: http://www.xomba.com/xombyte/free_cracker_4_jack?p