Scientists counter Bush view: Families varied, say anthropologists

SFGate ^ | Feb. 27, 2004 | Charles Burress

[DemWatch]

The primary organization representing American anthropologists criticized President Bush's proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage Thursday and gave a failing grade to the president's understanding of human cultures.

"The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution," said the executive board of the 11,000-member American Anthropological Association.

[Betaille]

Headline: "Liberal F-ggot snobs Bash Bush"

[FormerACLUmember]

This is a bogus propaganda piece from the "Queer Mafia" (their term, not mine). It is a complete lie.

[muawiyah]

Lots of these anthropologists come up with these stories to justify themselves to the young women they are hitting on every time they get out in the bush working on a grant!

Guess that makes them experts on what the President ought to say. Seems like we just got rid of a President who spent all his time thinkin like an anthropoligist on a field trip.

[speedy]

Exactly. They just make this stuff up. There has never been such a thing as recognized Christian same-sex marriages. This is complete garbage.

[Jeff Chandler]

Segal pointed to "sanctified same-sex unions in the fourth century in Christianity" and to the Greeks and Romans applying the concept of marriage to same-sex couples, not to mention the Native American berdache tradition in which males married males.

Christianity NEVER sanctified homosexual unions. To imply that "blood-brother" relationships were sexual in nature is dishonest. The Greeks and the Romans were accepting of homosexuality, but NEVER considered marriage as other than heterosexual. The Native Americans were not part of Western Civilization.

So much for these "scientists".

[reed_inthe_wind]

Maybe one of these pink doctors should run for office.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

oh rats rear .............

[ServesURight]

Nader, who is an association member, said Bush's proposal "serves the views of the religious right, and that has to do with getting votes."

As opposed to appeasing members of the secular and immoral Left who won't vote for him regardless?

[JoJo Gunn]

Oh yeah, If someone from Berkeley says it's so, then it must be true.

[M Kehoe]

LOL! Tell the anthropologist that they wouldn't be anthropologist if the species couldn't procreate.

LOL.

5.56mm

[SubMareener]

Anthropology is not a science, it is documented gossip! The most wonderful thing was learning that Margaret Meads' book "Coming of Age in Samoa (I think)" was based on tall tales the natives told her because they were embarrased by her questions!

[sirchtruth]

"Fabrication" is just not laudry detergent cleansing process.

[airborne]

And as everyone knows, scientists are never wrong.
RIGHT!!(sarcasm)

[Asclepius]

gal pointed to "sanctified same-sex unions in the fourth century in Christianity" and to the Greeks and Romans applying the concept of marriage to same-sex couples, not to mention the Native American berdache tradition in which males married males.

Neither the Greeks nor the Romans applied the "concept of marriage to same-sex couples." And what heterodox proto-Christian, most likely grrr-nostic sect "sanctified same-sex unions?" And who ever heard of the Native American "berdache tradition?" Were these unions the norm? Or simply normal? Or what?

This academic rube is reaching, and his or her reach exceeds his or her grasp.

[FormerACLUmember]

Yes, homosexual marraige has been the bedrock of civilization throughout all of history. The Berkeley Queer Mafia has spoken the complete scientific truth. </bullfeces>

[whereasandsoforth]

If any of this daydream were true, it would have been blasted on headlines thirty years ago. Nice try, you fagging twits, but no sale here.

[claudiustg]

Right! There's evidence in literature for marrying you mother and in history for marrying your sister, but it's still not a good idea to model your life after Oedipus or Caligula.

[speedy]

Funny how he did not name any of these famous same-sex couples. As the old saying goes, "Behind every great man is -- uh, er -- another man."

[eeriegeno]

What a bunch of goof-balls!