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==Definition of marriage==
 
==Definition of marriage==
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For Catholics, marriage is "a union that takes its distinctive character from being founded, unlike other friendships, on bodily unity of the kind that sometimes generates new life."<ref> [http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/marriage/mf0123.htm Gay Marriage, Democracy, and the Courts]</ref>
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For Catholics, marriage is "a union that takes its distinctive character from being founded, unlike other friendships, on bodily unity of the kind that sometimes generates new life."<ref> [http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/marriage/mf0123.htm Gay Marriage, Democracy, and the Courts]</ref>  In Islam, "Marriage serves as a means to emotional and sexual gratification and as a means of tension reduction. It is also a form of Ibadah because it is obeying Allah and his messenger"<ref> [http://www.jannah.org/sisters/marr.html]</ref>
    
==Attacks on the institution of marriage==
 
==Attacks on the institution of marriage==

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