There are
fundamental differences between the two regarding the nature and purpose
of marriage, which in a secular society
means, inevitably, that the state's understanding
of marriage is going to prevail, and be enforced by coercive measures.
[22] He tells us that «
marriage and procreation in themselves did not determine definitively the original and
fundamental meaning of being a body, or
of being, as a body, male and female.»