Definition of family:
a.
a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family.
I don't necessarily believe that marriage *promotes* family. Marriage is just a legal contract in its most simplistic definition.
LMAO
did you honestly think that was going to work?
and now are you trying to CHANGE your argument?
2 things
FIRST: your definition is NOT the only and full definition, nice try but a failure. Fact is parents and cilldren do NOT have to make up a family at all nor do you need the term TRADITIONAL in front of family when talking about marriage, its exactly what I mentioned perfer, its a deflection.
the REAL definitions:
Definition of FAMILY
1
: a group of individuals living under one roof and usually under one head
: household
2
a : a group of persons of
common ancestry
: clan b : a people or group of peoples regarded as deriving from a common stock
: race
3
a : a group of people united by certain convictions or a common
affiliation : fellowship b : the staff of a high official (as the President)
4
: a group of things related by common characteristics: as
a : a closely related series of elements or chemical compounds
b : a group of soils with similar chemical and physical properties (as texture, pH, and mineral content) that comprise a category ranking above the series and below the subgroup in soil
classification c : a group of related languages descended from a single ancestral language
5
a : the basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their children;
also : any of various social units differing from but regarded as
equivalent to the traditional family
<a single-parent family> b : spouse and children <want to spend more time with my
family>
SECOND: your original statment was about same sex marriage vs straight marriage and your argument was that SSM could not be a TRUE family because of biological off spring and that is wrong. If you are now CHANGING your argument to NO marriage promotes family then thats fine but you can not seperate the two. Let me know where you mispoke.