ideas to chew on.

In this article, John Borneman argues that marriage has inaccurately been "represented as the definitive ritual and universally translatable regulative ideal of human societies". We think of marriage as something that happens everywhere and is therefore normal despite the varying nature of relationships named marriage.

Considering all the various forms of marriage throughout history and across the world, how is it justifiable to impose a strict definition of marriage as "one man and one woman"?