MARRIAGE EQUALITY NATIONWIDE

[Razzle]

A big pet peeve of mine throughout this debate has been the idea that the meaning of the word "marriage" might be changed.

Holy shit, you mean a word's meaning might evolve? Are you kidding me? You mean that language is not a static  relationship of concepts hammered into stone to pass down through the eons where one people can speak to another without translation? What about Middle English? What about entirely new languages which grow out of the separation of tribes or other cultural groupings?

The meanings of most words, especially nouns and verbs, change over time. By wishing to cling to a specific example, modern-day bigots are not only fighting an egalitarian morality, they are also fighting raw facts.

I know right? A good example is the word "atheist". It was first used to refer to Christians in the Roman empire, because Christians denied the existence of the vast majority of gods believed in at the time. As every culture accepted the existence of every other culture's gods (including the Jews, back then), going around telling people that any god wasn't real, was so radical that it needed its own label, and in that context, calling Christians 'atheists' made sense. Given how selective their opposition to word redefinition is, I would bet money that almost no modern Christians would demand we revert to the original meaning of that word, once informed of it.