ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how liking as an aside to love continues to shed light on relationships beyond marriage. If marriage is the epitome of love and love has been used within theological frameworks to threaten the viability of gay relationships other forms of relationality continue to be necessary. While same-sex marriage advocates have won and same-sex couples can now be normal, challenges to relationality remain. Michael Warner argues that marriage is a form of state regulation that grants rights to some but not others and "as long as people marry, the state will continue to regulate the sexual lives of those who do not marry". Warner's argument was made, of course, almost two decades before Obergefell v. Hodges. With so much attention placed on same-sex marriage, ushering in alternative forms of relationships would seem even more challenging as same-sex couples rejoice at joining the wedding table.
