What is the legal definition of marriage?

(2) On February 18, 2010 at 6:48 pm Txtraveler79 [1] said:

I personally think all but the last paragraph should be removed. The question specifies, "What IS [emphasis added] the legal definition of marriage?" - it doesn't ask for the history lesson.

There is such a thing as over-answering, and in cases like this I can't help but think it's the result of an agenda of some type.

(1) On October 14, 2008 at 8:46 am Uriel-238 [34] said:

Removed this, which focuses only on marriage in terms of same sex couples.

Marriage is the legal union of a man and a woman as husband and wife, and a spouse is a husband or wife of the opposite sex. It's been understood to be this definition under federal law over 200 years. If gays and lesbians want to get married, then the federal law should come up with something else for them, like "union" or something. It should not fall under "marriage" because that would be changing the definition, and it is something that has been around since this country was founded, for the most part. It would be like calling a telephone something else. Instead of calling "marriage" something else, come up with a new term for homosexual "marriage". Plain and simple.

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