The traditional, conjugal view of marriage began its transformation (demise?) with the divorce revolution of the 1960s. Making it easier to end a marriage slowly altered the very definition of the institution, which I don't think most people at the time realized. So the current "same-sex marriage" movement didn't start the process, but is moving it farther. I'll be really curious to see what marriage is like in another two generations, when my grandkids are tying the knot. It's a scary prospect.
This thought really hit me after reading this quote from Daniel Foster's column in the back of National Review on 3 November 2014:
"...so long as marriage was a covenant with the eternal, it was not just
outside the purview of politics but logically prior to it. Conversely,
when marriages are a bureaucratic stamp of approval for a very expensive
party, a mere matter of tax-filing statuses and feelings, it seem petty to use the levers of the state to bless some and ban others."
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