“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“Marriage” has had a clear definition for over five thousand years. Even with polygamy, it was not a group arrangement. A marriage was one man with one woman; polygamous men just had more than one marriage at a time. Even in classical Athens, where they valued male-male relationships, “marriage” was limited to male-female. In declining Rome, when Emperor Nero “married” a boy, the relationship was not seen as a real marriage by the people. No culture that defined marriage differently survived long enough to have any significant effect on the world, and if any such cultures existed, they died out and were forgotten. Given that track record, whether or not I can stop today’s celebrants of “equality”, I will not embrace their cause.
“How many marriages do you have if two men have a wedding and then two women have a wedding? Zero. Calling a gay partnership a ‘marriage’ doesn’t make it a marriage.”
Same sex marriage is a post-WWII socialist construct.
Even Indian tribes are against it today (challenging the view that theirs was a culture tolerant of same sex family pairings).
“”www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marriage
Full Definition of MARRIAGE 1 a (1) : the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship ...””
Wonder when the definition of marriage will be changed in dictionaries....