Posted on 09/09/2015 8:16:15 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
I suspected that there was something inherent in the roots of the word "Matrimony" which would establish it's meaning as being between a man and a woman.
I believe a word can be better understood by looking up how it came to us from older languages, and so I consulted an online etymology dictionary.
It said the word "Matrimony" is derived from the word "Mater", which means "Mother" in Latin. This is a clear indication that the intended purpose is to begat children.
The name matrimonium with its root mater (mother) shows the principle objective of the institution, the creation of children.
And some facilitate that warp by using their words like “gay” or hyphenated race/ethnicity labeling. Stop using gay and other words that they have hijacked to push their agenda. Call a spade a spade and a queer a queer, or a deviant etc...
I didn’t know what the word “matrimony” meant until someone explained to me that it isn’t a word; it’s a sentence.
Hat tip to “The Bickersons.”
Cheers,
Jim
Excellent.
And “fetus” means baby.
Since marriages have always been subject to annulment if never consummated by a procreational act (that is a normal sexual act), there are various ways that States can fight back against the Supreme Court ruling, forcing additional litigation of the ultimate issue.
Let me just suggest one course, and appeal to the imagination of the wise folk here at Free Republic.
It is common in many marriage ceremonies, to offer a chance for someone to object to a marriage, or forever hold their peace. Well, what about a State law, calling for a public ombudsman with power to legally challenge any would be married couple, on the basis of a suspicion that they were simply unable to consummate a marriage. (Obviously if the couple are in their late teens or twenties, there would be no challenge, unless they were known to lack the necessary genitalia for normal sexuality.)
This approach would have an obvious intent, of course. But it would still focus attention on the actual circumstances of a case, rather than the simple word game around the meaningless term (when you are actually dealing with biology) of "equality." (All couples are not equally suited to the mating process, as understood throughout human history.)
Exactly.
The institution of marriage evolved because of the need to protect children until they become self-sufficient. The legal framework surrounding marriage deals with inheritances, ensuring that those children are provided for in the event of the death of one or both parents, and that wealth stays in the family.
Sorry, homosexuals, marriage is not and never was about getting a certificate to officially sanction a sexual relationship. (Not that that consideration was behind the push towards "same-sex marriage"--one major motivation was to get what they perceive as financial benefits that married people have.)
mater? It does not matter
My tagline a while back:
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”- Samuel Adams
And they should. Force the definition of the word "consummation" to be litigated all the way back up to the Supreme Court. Make them define "consummation" as poop pushing. Make them deal with dirty things in a way they can't hide. Put the shame back on them.
This approach would have an obvious intent, of course. But it would still focus attention on the actual circumstances of a case, rather than the simple word game around the meaningless term (when you are actually dealing with biology) of "equality." (All couples are not equally suited to the mating process, as understood throughout human history.)
They would simply hold their "ceremonies" outside the reach of people who could object on those grounds. I also do not think such objections are recognized as a matter of state law.
I wasn't familiar with that quote. Those guys were incredibly perceptive!
Exactly. It has a necessary societal purpose which is not only not met by queer "marriage", it is actively undermined by such.
Not now, they are not. That was the whole point of my suggestion. Pass a law that establishes an ombudsman, with authority to protect against marriages permanently in question & subject to annulment.
The word “marriage” comes from the first recorded wedding at the city of MARI in Mesopotamia on a clay cuneiform tablet. It comes down thru the Arabic to the French as “mari” [husband] and Spanish as Marido [husband].
It's a clever tactic, but I doubt it would get through the legislature. The "Law uber alles!" types would immediately point out to the legislatures that the courts would strike it down, and therefore there is no point to doing it.
Now that is some useful background. The sources I consulted indicated it to be rather ambiguous. Your explanation is far more detailed and relevant.
“The word “marriage” comes from the first recorded wedding at the city of MARI in Mesopotamia on a clay cuneiform tablet.”
Ah, I don’t think so. The word “marriage” is traceable to vulgar Latin from French, that is to say, it is of medieval origin. Mari, as a city, disappeared from history in the late Bronze Age, never to be heard of again until its discovery and subsequent excavation by the French in 1933. Besides which, marriages had been taking place much before that in places other than Mari, many of which, for example, throughout all of Babylonia and Assyria, shared the same language with Mari, and also the Sumerian civilization which preceded those cultures in the same region. So, no. That is a false etymology.
Agreed. Can we stop calling them “Progressives”?
They’re Regressives. Liberals want to return us to paganism, a time prior to the rise of western civilization, which rose out of Judeo-Christian ideals.
Sorry but learned “first marriage at MARI” from an archaeologist at the university years ago. I can read cuneiform. Hebrew, greek, latin etc.
0 viz “The letters between Zimri-Lim, King of Mari, and his wife Shiptu, are especially touching in that it is clear how much they cared for, trusted, and relied on each other.”
One should read the MARI clay tablets before pontificating. oops forgot you can`t read cuneiform?/ sorry - the tablets are in the British archive drawers and also at Oxford, other places for studying.
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