No. Institution as in “the practice of”, not a specific organization.
The practice predates all the currently practiced religions. They didn’t get to claim ownership of it. Pairing up in mostly lifelong bonds predates society as a whole, and isn’t even a human exclusive practice.
Religions trying to act as if they’re arbiters over it is laughable in how petulant it is.
I asked the penguins and they stated they use domestic partnership, not marriage. They said it’s foolish to get people hurt fighting for something like a word.
The term marriage didn’t even exist back then, just the union going by other terms, maybe find one of those terms if you think the tradition of a word matters more than the happiness and safety of the population. Looking it up, It appears most people just called them unions. So we can put domestic union into the documents instead of marriage. That should solve your issue.
No. Institution as in “the practice of”, not a specific organization.
The practice predates all the currently practiced religions. They didn’t get to claim ownership of it. Pairing up in mostly lifelong bonds predates society as a whole, and isn’t even a human exclusive practice.
Religions trying to act as if they’re arbiters over it is laughable in how petulant it is.
I asked the penguins and they stated they use domestic partnership, not marriage. They said it’s foolish to get people hurt fighting for something like a word.
The term marriage didn’t even exist back then, just the union going by other terms, maybe find one of those terms if you think the tradition of a word matters more than the happiness and safety of the population. Looking it up, It appears most people just called them unions. So we can put domestic union into the documents instead of marriage. That should solve your issue.