Wolfson defines marriage as something that is universal, I especially like how he used a sense of language to convey that no matter where you live or how you communicate that every society has a word for marriage. He also declares that it is a public statement of your commitment and love for another person, he says that is signifies and enables a relationship between your intimate partner and the government, and also that is has spiritual significance. Although he goes in to depth with other aspects of the definition of marriage the part that stood out most predominately to me was the idea that it was ideally accessible to everyone. Wolfson proved that all people, including guilty criminals, have the right to marry and reap the significant benefits it administrates, all people except homosexuals. His definition is not only sensible and fair, but it is completely inclusive and covers almost every crevasse of marriage, the benefits and the downfalls. By first defining what it means to have a marriage Wolfson successfully conveys the importance of marriage within multiple different crucial elements of life. I think commonly people who appose gay marriage are looking at marriage as simply a formal bond of an intimate relationship, which in my opinion is still very trivial and uneducated, but they obviously fail to recognize the other benefits it brings along. Once he points out those monumental benefits it is even more difficult to understand why same sex marriage is not permitted, or more accurately addresses why same se couples can not engage in marriage.