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Since the 1940s, the number of married households has decreased more than 50%. With the passing of marriage equality laws legalizing same-sex couples to marry, there is hope that the institution of marriage will become revitalized.

Each day LGBT activists have made strides in the fight for marriage equality and with each passing day they are getting closer. They push for increased access to domestic partnership benefits and adoption rights for both same-sex and different-sex unmarried couples.

Up until that marriage was designed for heterosexual unions and was never supposed to include your uncle Ted and his long-term partner, Oscar.

 A recent article in The Atlantic, by writer Liza Mundy, makes the argument that gay marriage is good for the age-old institution because it’s reinvigorating the union, which has waned in popularity among heterosexual couples.

Here’s to marriage, the institution that endures because human beings desire it too, not because heterosexuals own the franchise.