Marriage Equality, Yours or Mine

This past week the United States Supreme Court passed a landmark ruling. 
Bringing an end to years of a nightmare for many in the Gay community and their supporters.
 For others, mostly the far-right conservatives, it was the beginning of a self-inflicted nightmare.

This matter of homosexuality has been debated endlessly and will continue to be debated.
As we mark the 60th anniversary of the discovery of DNA today. I thought I should broach this controversial topic here.
While the United States takes a forward and most humane step, many countries in my homeland on the African continent, are taking a backward step.

 Nigeria is at the forefront of this backward and inhumane movement. Criminalizing Homosexuality. Handing down 14 years jail sentence to any homosexual or Gay rights activist.
Did that give you an emotional whiplash? me too. I can not believe our lawmakers would do that at the turn of the 21st century. Punishing people for being different.
 Imagine being sent to prison, denied of your freedom just because you are different from the majority. What travesty! A great injustice! Not much different from apartheid!

Back to the DNA and its part in homosexuality. A school of thought has proffered that homosexuality is not a lifestyle but a matter of one's makeup, the DNA. 
Others argue that it is a lifestyle, an acquired trait.  I agree with the former. Homosexuality is not a lifestyle. It is part of one's genetic makeup.
Just think for one second, about the trouble many in the Gay community went through, in the past,  pretending to be heterosexual. Just to be accepted by society. And how many failed woefully.
Or young people, especially teenagers, commit suicide after being bullied for their sexual orientation.
That ought to tell us something. That who they are is not of their making.
And should make every human being more accepting of homosexuals.

So I applaud the United States for this landmark ruling and hope that one day, my homeland will take such a bold and humane step.
Of course, some have also argued that marriage is primarily for procreation. So a man married to a man can not naturally get pregnant and have a baby. Nor a woman married to a woman cannot get her wife pregnant.
I say to you, you are dead wrong. Nature procreates through a man and woman, to propagate itself, yes! that is as constant as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. 
And nature will continue to do that with or without marriage.
 Marriage is the creation of our societies. Marriage is not the creation of nature. The reason why there are different types of marriage depends on your location, society, and culture.
Look at many societies in Africa, that are culturally polygamous- One man can have as many wives as he can afford. Something which is considered illegal in the West. 
While societies in North America, Asia, and Europe predominantly practice monogamy - one man and a woman. Or parts of Asia where Polyandry is acceptable- a woman can have two husbands. Which will be seen as taboo in many African societies.
This shows that marriage is not a creation of nature, for if it were, it would be uniform in every part of the world. Just as it is uniform for a sperm to fertilize an egg for procreation.
 

Therefore the primary purpose of marriage cannot be procreation.
But marriage was created by societies to help regulate how procreation takes place.
And of course offer companionship, as you know, man is a social animal, a primate.

Every society can redefine marriage as our world turns.
The definition of marriage cannot be constant but dynamic!
 Constant updates are advised. And the United States has just updated its definition of Marriage.