" Where does the next advance come?" he asks in an essay at Politico. "Now that we've defined that love and devotion and family isn't driven by gender alone, why should it be limited to just two individuals? The most natural advance next for marriage lies in legalized polygamy.... Gay marriage remains illegal in Australia, most of Asia, Africa, and Oceania, and parts of Europe and Mexico; the most liberal of those countries strike me as the most natural places for "the next advance" of marriage. I'd urge my fellow gay-marriage proponents to focus their efforts there––and legalizing group marriage in America right now would strengthen the hands of gay-marriage opponents abroad, confirming slippery-slope arguments that were raised and rejected here. If it ever made sense to avoid this fight as a matter of political strategy, it still does; if gay marriage was ever a more important priority than plural marriage, it remains so." ~ Freddie de Boe...
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Those who have grown up in dysfunctional families will, I think, believe that close associations far afield from family might be especially useful. One interesting outcome is that people who do not fit well in their families have other institutions to turn to for help - institutions neither assured to exist nor supported by the notion that the purpose of every institution is to turn a profit.
I see Marxism's motives as being more Christian than capitalism's. Where it comes off the rails is the Bolshevik notion that one may rightly use any means to achieve a desired end.