>>So marriage is:
>>1) Genital-based
>
>That's a load of b***s then!

Regardless, is it not how some are attempting to define 'marriage' for all of us? Is it not "the law"? All this talking about 'marriage' is useless until we define what we're discussing.

>>Is it also offspring-based?
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>There are many people who get married and choose NOT to have kids.

I'm gonna assume you are refering to consenting adults. In that case there are also those couples who are not able to have kids due to being: infertile, post-operatively or accidentally incapacitaded, irreversable vasectomies/tube-tied, same-sexed.


>BTW,by the tone of your message, you're not any relation to old Howard, are you?

Ha! Dunno, who's that?