Posted by snoozin on February 28, 2005, at 19:29:24
In reply to Re: What do conservative Americans stand for?, posted by rayww on February 28, 2005, at 12:05:58
I think permitting gay marriage is honoring the sanctity of the union, not demeaning it. I haven't heard yet a rational argument for banning gay marriage. I want to take this outside of a religious context though. That is for each person to decide based on his/her beliefs.
But barring religion, in western society, marriage has been nothing but a legal contract, creating one entity, for the purposes of legitimizing heirs and specifying property rights. Period. Only recently have we truly be free to marry for love. How many historical marriages were made for land acquisition, wealth acquisition, power, honor, legitimacy? It's only been recent history that women have any rights at all in a marriage. In many countries, they still don't.
>>Do I get to wear it just for supporting traditional sacred marriage?
<<Can't you support traditional sacred marriage *without* trying to ban gay marriage?>> Someone is not looking carefully at the outcomes of dismanteling marriage.
<<Yeah, it's called American society, where something like 75% of kids grow up in a single household.
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