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What would happen if same-sex marriage were legalised? (2)
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<blockquote data-quote="David Brider" data-source="post: 57439574" data-attributes="member: 81349"><p>I don't think it helps that there's a tendency, in attempts to define "traditional marriage," to focus on the external. "Marriage is one man and one woman" is what we're often told, but what does that actually <em>mean</em>? Sure, for the past several hundred years the tradition has tended to be that the two people we allow to get married is a couple consisting of one man and one woman, but it's meaningless to say that marriage <em>is</em> "one man and one woman". What marriage <em>is</em> - at least, in the 21st century western world - is when two adults, normally on the basis of mutual love but sometimes for other reasons, make a decision to commit to spending the rest of their natural lives together; and this commitment is (again, in the 21st century western world) usually celebrated by some kind of ceremony, sometimes religious in nature, sometimes not, conducted in the presence of the friends and family of the two people getting married.</p><p> </p><p>Although it's traditional - again, in the western world over the past few centuries, not necessarily outside the western world or in times longer ago than that - for the two people getting married to be one man and one woman, there's no very good reason why the two people getting married can't be two men, or two women. It wouldn't be stretching the definition of marriage particularly to include same-sex couiples as well as opposite-sex couples.</p><p> </p><p><strong><u>David.</u></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="David Brider, post: 57439574, member: 81349"] I don't think it helps that there's a tendency, in attempts to define "traditional marriage," to focus on the external. "Marriage is one man and one woman" is what we're often told, but what does that actually [I]mean[/I]? Sure, for the past several hundred years the tradition has tended to be that the two people we allow to get married is a couple consisting of one man and one woman, but it's meaningless to say that marriage [I]is[/I] "one man and one woman". What marriage [I]is[/I] - at least, in the 21st century western world - is when two adults, normally on the basis of mutual love but sometimes for other reasons, make a decision to commit to spending the rest of their natural lives together; and this commitment is (again, in the 21st century western world) usually celebrated by some kind of ceremony, sometimes religious in nature, sometimes not, conducted in the presence of the friends and family of the two people getting married. Although it's traditional - again, in the western world over the past few centuries, not necessarily outside the western world or in times longer ago than that - for the two people getting married to be one man and one woman, there's no very good reason why the two people getting married can't be two men, or two women. It wouldn't be stretching the definition of marriage particularly to include same-sex couiples as well as opposite-sex couples. [B][U]David.[/U][/B] [/QUOTE]
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