Have you ever heard anyone ever give a single 'coherent' reason to be against marriage equality?

[RainDog]

45. but all societies everywhere have not so conspired

as one anthropologist recently noted - homosexuals were married in the early church.

as far as marriage - you can ask why marriage became an issue of property rights - with a female as the property. does this mean it's part of our genetic makeup? No. It means patriarchal societies wanted to insure that males passed property along to their genetic heirs.

why did property become an issue? the exercise of power.

however, in societies in which a female's family members are the ones that matters in order to raise a child - marriage isn't such a big deal because the males in her family fulfill parenting/father figure roles and provide support to help everyone survive. Everyone knows when who a child belongs to when the female is the one who claims parentage.

marriage as we know it came about because men were anxious and unsure about their parentage and females were denied economic independence.