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Originally Posted by BTirish
On the contrary, it is manifest that on a biological level reproductive organs are ordered primarily towards reproduction. Therefore, the use of those organs in sexual activity is primarily for the sake of reproduction.
I've never had sex for the sake of reproduction, only pleasure. So clearly this is wrong for at least some people (and probably most of them).
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Marriage is the fitting relationship in which that activity takes place, because family is the natural environment in which human beings are to be educated.
Actually people have sex outside of marriage without any problems all the time. In addition, even if your statement were true, that in no way invalidates that plenty of people get married for reasons other than bearing children. And finally, there are plenty of homosexual couples who raise children together.
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The fundamental mistake is to think that marriage is a relationship based primarily on romance or having a "life partner" or anything like that.
Actually this is exactly what marriage is to most people. The fundamental mistake seems rather to be in telling people why they should get married.
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That error having been widespread in people's opinions about marriage for some time (the decades of high divorce rates and high promiscuity outside of marriage), it's no surprise that so many people now have difficulty understanding why a homosexual relationship couldn't be a marriage. It's because they don't get what a marriage is to begin with. It's a relationship that is fundamentally about bearing and raising children.
Hopefully it's now clear why this is completely wrong.