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It's not. Marriage is a way to organize your population and more easily handle shared property and decision making in legal matters.
Religions tried to co-opt control over the institution that predates it
And since they have co-opted control over the institution for at least 10x longer than any countrys institution has existed it is an entirely moot point as religion has "earned" guarantees of different freedoms within our institution. So anyone claiming their marriage is actually for a tradition predating religion would also recognize they clearly were not doing so to swear the allegiance to the United States of America's judicial system that didn't come about until the late 1700s. They were creating a unity between themselves and their partner in the eyes of those who they ask to bore witness with the expectation that unity existed whether or not a piece of lands government rose or fell. By all means there would be no difference if they replaced the term marriage in our government documents are replaced it with one not "co-opted" by region. A word is meaningless until you put power into it.
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.
Yeah this was the same "separate but equal" bullshit the Christians tried to pull a decade ago. I don't have an issue.
The only ones with an issue are the asshole bigots trying to claim ownership of a practice they didn't create. Listening to the stupid solutions presented by the ones find offense with sharing, to things no one else has a problem with...is pointless.