Dan Savage on the Institution of Marriage
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- Found_Avenue
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Dan Savage discusses the definition of marriage, and the erroneous claim that same-sex couples seek to re-define this institution.
Marriage was originally a sale of property. In the west, Marriage was re-defined BY THE HETEROSEXUAL COMMUNITY, and evolved into an equal legal partnership - slash - life partnership many years ago.
Yet, when the concept of same-sex marriage is introduced, detractors attempt to define marriage in it's original archaic terms, in the subconscious hope of deflecting from their own (often religiously-inspired) homophobia. They claim to be making reason-based arguments against same sex marriage, but when their reasoning is invalidated, it becomes clear that their arguments are emotion-based -- stemming from prejudice and nothing more...
Marriage was originally a sale of property. In the west, Marriage was re-defined BY THE HETEROSEXUAL COMMUNITY, and evolved into an equal legal partnership - slash - life partnership many years ago.
Yet, when the concept of same-sex marriage is introduced, detractors attempt to define marriage in it's original archaic terms, in the subconscious hope of deflecting from their own (often religiously-inspired) homophobia. They claim to be making reason-based arguments against same sex marriage, but when their reasoning is invalidated, it becomes clear that their arguments are emotion-based -- stemming from prejudice and nothing more...
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- groups:
- Humanism, LGBT, Anti-Xenophobia
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- tags:
- Gay Rights, Marriage, Marriage Equality, Dan Savage
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tangibleparadox
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thanks for posting. :) loved it.
- 2 years ago
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tangibleparadox
