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Originally Posted by Larv
My private definition of marriage probably is of a Middle Age mentality.
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So, your definition of marriage means that women are the property of the man, to be beaten, punished, and done with what he will... some
thing deeded to the man by the girls father? You see a marriage to a woman as equivalent to buying a car or a horse? Rather curious, that.
Please note, also, those christian church delivered gay marriages referenced earlier happened during the middle ages, so your point isn't even really that accurate.
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Originally Posted by Larv
I've wrecked this thread, I'm sorry.
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No, not at all. Please, don't be. This is an important discussion to have. There are a great many people in our country who view this situation the exact same way you do. They don't see it as a "marriage." They are okay with domestic partnerships... okay with civil unions... okay with equal rights and protections under the law... just not okay with calling it "marriage."
That's very common, and important to understand. Some of my closest friends and colleagues feel precisely that way, so you're not alone.
I just don't. I don't understand it one bit. You, yourself, in each of your posts keep referring to it as a marriage... you're not calling it a "gay union" or "same sex partnership." You're calling it a "gay marriage," and TBH the term "gay" is extraneous. It's just how we understand the relationship. It doesn't particularly matter whether it's between two same sex or two opposite sex partners. Our parlance calls it a "marriage," as evidenced in the word you've chosen in your own posts on the subject.
That's just it. Sure, it's different from what you're used to, but it's still a marriage and your chosen lexicon implicitly suggests your agreement with my point. A gay man is not going to run up to his friends and tell them all he's getting "civil unioned" or "domestically partnered" with his mate. He's going to tell them he's getting "married," because that's what he's doing.
That is, of course, if he happens to be lucky enough to live in a state which prizes equal protections and considers it legal to begin with.
