Marriage feedback [inofficial Poll]

[Zantetsuken]

Marriages are not required to have children. Nor are married couples forced to procreate.

How does preventing same sex marriages force the LGBT crowd to marry people they are not attracted to? How does it even foster the needed family environment for raising children, or wanting children?

More to the point, how does same sex marriages in game have anything to do with Japan's population?

It makes perfect sense:

Marriage is a child-stimulus program (either by design or incidentally). Same sex unions are a stamp of approval on a romantic relationship. To call a same-sex union a 'marriage' is to reduce the latter to the former.

Japan needs a child-stimulus program - that is a special benefit to those who are starting a biological family.

I doubt you'll understand this though - you seem determined that the romantic element is the only component of marriage, rather than just a part of it (Historically, it wasn't a part of some marriages at all.)