ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we will first look at some cultural and historical variations of marriage that indicate that marriage does not have a fixed purpose across cultures or within the same culture through time, despite what a group of persistent philosophers (the New Natural Lawyers) claim. The concept of “marriage,” however, might have a more or less general meaning within cultures. Still, I argue that the door is open for allowing marriages that go beyond opposite-sex and same-sex to include transgender partners (including people with a fluid sexual or gender identity), marriages of bisexuals, and group marriages.
