RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Canada to Allow Same-Sex Marriage

You're saying that mutual affection establishes precedent for marriage, but marriage has never required a prerequisite of affection. And, for that matter, marriage has never been a requirement for people who share affection. The synthesis between Marriage and affection was an expressly cultural development.

If your interpretation for the precedent of marriage's practice is dependent upon a purely cultural aspect of the institution, then what does that tell you about you--and homosexuals in general--assigning so much importance to the ritual?