ok...the word "marriage" should apply to 2 adults, female or male, end of story...anything after that should have it's own category, call it farriage, narriage, garriage, warriage or whatever & it will apply to any union other than the standard "marriage" situation...my personal opinion is anything other than the "2 adult/male or female" union is not suitable...
no under 21 years of age marriages - if 2 people are in love & want to get married but they are only 18, too bad, they must wait until they are legally old enough, if they are in love they will still be in love when they are older, if they aren't, well it's a good thing they had to wait OR someone under age gets pregnant, too bad, they still must wait until they are legally old enought to marry...
if someone wants to marry their goat, well go to the country where this is legal...
no 3 or more person marriages, that is not a marriage, that's called a harem, well go to the country where this is legal...
Two-Adults-Male-Female = Marriage...everything else is called a smarriage & has no legal standing or right to be recognized anywhere
you know there more i think about it, maybe we should just leave it alone, marriage should stay as it always has...if a man chooses to have a man as his partner or a woman chooses to have a woman as her partner, feel free to do this, but this won't be recognized by society as being legal....
IT"S JUST TOO MUCH TROUBLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!