Given the attention currently devoted to questioning or defending the notion of ”traditional marriage”, it pays to consider this: throughout most of written history, ”traditional marriage” has involved non-monogamous relationships in which fathers sold their daughters and wives were considered property.
Viewed in a historical context, a ”non-traditional” marriage would involve a ceremony between two individuals who chose each other, followed by a life of monogamy. Calling our contemporary idea of heterosexual marriage ”traditional” is like calling blogging a traditional form of literature.