The issue focused on how to handle the fact that people who are not in a relationship can be married.

"We're going to start asking people to come up with ideas," Mr. Smith said. "We're going to ask, 'Why do people have children?' Why do people have a relationship that ends after the marriage?' 'Why are there so many people who have children?'"

The answer, he said, could be to have children. "If you think about it," he said,