(April 5, 2013 at 5:26 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(April 5, 2013 at 2:38 pm)Ryantology Wrote: ...insists that it has the right to define marriage so that it only includes what it wants, you don't get to complain about how petty we are.Marriage was already pretty well defined until people started adding hyphens. Not that I really care about the issue that much. I believe states should just start treating every voluntarily committed relationship as a civil union and be done with it. Because personally, I see marriage as a religious sacrament between one man, one woman, and one God. How's that for secularism?
I concur that all committed relationships in the same way, but that goes for polygamous ones as well. Tell me though, when has marriage been well defined? Marriage has changed a lot, you just need to compare what it says in the Bible/Torah to what we think of as marriage today, and that's before you throw in all the stuff that was around before the semitic religions monopolised marriage.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R Tolkien
