Posted on 05/13/2015 10:48:49 AM PDT by EveningStar
Trevor Burrus is a research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies.
Our modern view of marriage — one that has generally predominated in Western societies over the past 200 years — is the outlier. Historically, marriage has been about finding good in-laws and securing economic advantage. And marrying for love is a thoroughly modern invention ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The headline misleads. In the article, although the author gives examples of same-sex marriage in the past, he also says it was frowned upon in the past.
Actually, there were long stretches of history in many places where marriage was not between a man: polygamy among the Jews, evidenced in the accounts of the patriarchs in the Old Testament (Jacob had two wives as did Lamech), was not abolished until the middle ages under pressure to conform to the Christian legal norm, then, of course, there is Islam which keeps up the Near Eastern custom of polygamy, places where Buddhists have practiced both polygyny and polyandry (different places), the Hindi record that in Vedic times polygamy was common (though Hindus are now monogamous), claims the Celtic pagans practiced polyandry, and a folk custom of polyandry in the Himalayas in which brothers share a wife.
Of course, except for oddities like Nero who “married” a eunuch and was mocked as a degenerate for it by his fellow pagans, it was always men marrying women, and involved a single spouse of one sex or the other.
Yes, the WaPo has a liberal agenda.
The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank.
A modern remake of Cleopatra would have Marc Anthony placing an asp in Cleo’s bed himself and then prancing off with Julius Caesar. I’m surprised they haven’t done one like that yet.
Lucifer’s long-time mouth-piece reaches a new low in it’s quest for societal degeneration.
Interesting choice of the best examples to support his position: An emperor considered insane whose marriage was not generally recognized by his people, a West African tribe that has contributed nothing to the world or to history, and rare relationships in obscure North American tribes that also contributed nothing to the world. It's almost like productivity and gay "marriage" are incompatible in any society.
Bad editing:
insert “and a woman” between the word man and the colon.
It’s not wrong. Through all recorded history, marriage has been between a man and a woman, a contract that provides stability for the purpose of raising a family. That’s a fact!
Recorded history goes back more that 5,000 years. That is how long we have been civilized. Today, these clowns want us to revert to a period before that when people had no religion and no organized society to ascribe to. They want homosexuals to be normalized. They want the killing of babies to be accepted as normal. They seem to want all morality abolished and are working towards that end.
It seems with them as technology progresses, morality recedes. Not going to work well. People are acceding to their wishes some, but they will ultimately wake up.
FR was sued by The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times back in the late 1990s for posting complete un-excerpted articles.
No! I am most definitely NOT a homosexual! LOL!
Did they win, or did the LOSE that lawsuit ?
It’ll be a GLORIOUS DAY, when we walk OVER their ASHES !
Let’s see... Adam, Eve, and... well, no one else.
The headline is wrong. In the actual article, the author pretty much agrees with what you’re saying.
Authors usually don’t write their own headlines. That task is usually left to a designated staff member.
Fails entirely to prove his point. No evidence. No historical record. No logic.
But reason or history, or law or states’ rights or Christian virtue for that matter, is not what this is all about anyway.
Gay marriage was the point of resistance.
The left kept pushing and pushing around the homo issue,
and Christians tolerated everything,
up to the point of calling some farsical union a “marriage”,
then they resisted. Then the left pounced and made that disapproval a reason to bring down the wrath of the state on Christians.
You’ve been here longer than I have. You know the answr.
We also note that Nero was run out of town and forced to kill himself because the Roman people were damn tired of him and his excesses such AS marrying his slave and dressing as a prostitute etc.
Romans did NOT condone such “marriages” and neither did the Greeks who raised pederasty to an art form.
Ain’t it funny how those societies who “embraced” homosexuality never quite managed to make homosexual marriage legal.
This guy is a fool.
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