(May 23, 2012 at 8:47 pm)Aiza Wrote: I think that marriage in "our times" is currently undergoing a bit of a change itself. For some people, marriage means "sharing your life together" and is essentially just a very expensive romantic gesture with tax benefits. For others, it is about the creation of family and new life. I think saying that those who ascribe to the latter must be "persecuting" those who ascribe to the former is flawed, as flawed as trying to say the ancient Greeks were "persecuting" gays for also having another definition of marriage..
Well, just like marriage that's because you have incorrect definitions stored in your head.
per-se-cute Wrote:- verb (used with object), -cut·ed, -cut·ing.
1. to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religion, race, or beliefs; harass persistently.
Seems to qualify to me. Let's also add the anti-sodomy laws, 'cannot mention homosexuality in public schools', 'don't ask, don't tell', 'gays can't adopt kids', etc. Then again, the prevalence of such laws and pressures to enact such laws in states that are most outspoken on the topic and have higher conservative religious populations is just random correlation, right? This is an example of people trying to control private, personal behavior through laws.
Persecute.
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