That one's easy.
Marriage - the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law.
Same definition both times.
And yes, I know that the online dictionaries have added a politically correct definition for those people who want to broaden it to vindicate their own lives, but this is why I stick to the old-fashioned Webster's dictionary I keep on my desk. When words mean everything, they mean nothing.
Are you suggesting that we determine our laws based on the writings of Merriam & Webster?
No, I'm stating emphatically that we determine our laws based on what things actually are, which is reflected in the definitions of the words which represent them.
Marriage is what it is and always has been for a reason, ie. the cumulative wisdom of centuries of human history and experience. That reason is also why our laws up until now regarding marriage have been written the way they were, AND it is the reason that the dictionary defines "marriage" the way it does.
Why is it that any reference source, no matter how reliable and definitive it has been considered in the past, is dismissed as trivial and inconsequential by leftists the second it conflicts with how they want to view the world? Do they honestly want to live in a world where there is no reality and language is reduced to meaningless grunts?