In a way, I feel almost like it would be different if it was a Christian invention. Like if someone wanted to start doing communion in a different way, and Christians felt it was the "wrong" way, I'd feel even if it's still irrational at least it's their tradition to have some say in it.
It's just this monopoly on marriage I don't like, which is why it does piss me off when Christians talk about defending "the Christian marriage". It's not yours. You don't make the rules.
It's just this monopoly on marriage I don't like, which is why it does piss me off when Christians talk about defending "the Christian marriage". It's not yours. You don't make the rules.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie