[Sherman Logan]

Because race never had anything to do with marriage - only with some cultures.

That's not really true either.

In India, people are generally constrained to marry within their caste (varna = color). Most historians believe caste rose out of conquerors of a different "race" trying to keep their race pure.

In most of these United States, interracial marriages were illegal and invalid for a very long time indeed.

Many other societies have had restrictions on intermarriage between groups that have some semblance to laws against interracial marriage.

I do note that the idea of "race" in the modern sense we take for granted is a unique idea. Only developed in the last few hundred years.

[CutePuppy]

Yes, I was referring, in general, to the constraints some of which were made into law based on local culture and/or religion, but not inherently based on the definition of marriage and which haven't redefined nor expanded the definition.

In other words, the comparison of same-sex "marriage" to interracial marriage is bogus, a trick that is only based on the past local legal constraints, same as applying the bogus battle-cry of "civil rights" in just about any issue that doesn't have a real, normal justification.

[CutePuppy]

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