Once long ago, in the highest echelons of society, our forefathers saw fit to unite powerful business interests and landed Aristocratic families through the social institution of marriage.
Love was a foreign concept to those titanic men. As my eight bastard children can attest, marriage was then, and remains now, a matter of professional convenience. Yet the underclasses, as they have always been wont to do, saw these grandiose displays by their social and economic superiors and desired to have their own--as misguided as that may seem. They had no land, no money, no slaves or servants to conglomerate through this practice, yet we did, in a moment of weakness or perhaps laudanum induced delirium, condescend to grant the middling and lower classes the right to marry.
Yet since that day there has been no end to the balderdash surrounding this farce of an institution. Recently, much complaining has been bandied about on this issue concerning the marriage of these so called homo-sexuals. Having had quite enough, the Men of Bowen & Sons, in our most wise attempt to restore the natural social order, have decided to call for a prohibition on all marriages. Our inferiors have had their go at marriage and they have failed quite spectacularly. Rather than sort out what exactly a homo-sexual is, we find that it would be easier to end all this blathering and bickering by banning the practice of marriage all together. True, this will be a bit of a hindrance to the business classes, but we here at Bowen & Sons have never missed the opportunity to be first and foremost leaders into a grand and profitable future. We have no doubt that powerful marriages of convenience will be made obsolete by brave new innovation brought on by our most keen and stall-wart entrepreneurs and investment bankers, those most noble custodians of morality and economic virtue.