Yuyutsu:

“But not just parenting: NOTHING should require a legal marriage, thus nobody should be seeking to have it, including same-sex couples.”

Those who do seek it show a lack of dignity and self-respect. Instead of standing up to governments and demanding their rights as citizens they avoid this by bowing down to the conditions placed on those rights by the government.

Nothing should lead to such demeaning behaviour – especially something as trite as government sanctioned marriage