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Re:Google backs gay marriage by mynameishere on Sunday September 28, 2008 @11:54AM (#317636)
The universality of marriage within different societies and cultures is attributed to the many basic social and personal functions for which it provides structure, such as sexual gratification and regulation, division of labour between the sexes, economic production and consumption, and satisfaction of personal needs for affection, status, and companionship; perhaps its strongest function concerns procreation, the care of children and their education and socialization, and regulation of lines of descent.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/366152/marriage

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Re:Google backs gay marriage by Alex3917 on Sunday September 28, 2008 @02:09PM (#317723)
That's about marriage, not state-regulated marriage. You are being intellectually dishonest.
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Re:Google backs gay marriage by astine on Monday September 29, 2008 @11:46AM (#318422)
The quote is about marriage as a social institution. States are known to regulate social institutions within their spheres of influence.
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Re:Google backs gay marriage by Alex3917 on Monday September 29, 2008 @09:55PM (#319177)
Nothing you've said amounts to anything near a citation for his claim.
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