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Re: Santorum Fails In His Effort To Pervert The Constitution
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 23 Jul 2004 00:08:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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I don’t think marriage, until rather recently, has ever been defined as
anything other than the union of 1 man and 1 woman. But again, I am open
to cites that prove to the contrary.
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I understand they use a slightly different definition in Utah.
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And in California and Massachusetts, but it’s still illegal.
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I thought we were considering the definition of marraige, not the legality or
otherwise of that definition.
Even so, there is a world outside the USA. Muslim countries all over the world
permit polygamy. One woman + one man = marraige isn’t a universal definition by
any stretch of the imagination. To continue to argue that it is is baffling to
me.
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I happen to like the way marriage has been defined for the past millenia or
two, and I don’t appreciate activist groups attempting to change that
definition via judicial fiat for their own personal agenda.
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Whether or not you or I like the definition is irrelevant. Things change,
sometimes for the better, sometimes not - such is life.
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Change comes when the majority decide it should change, not a tiny
minority.
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What on Earth makes you think that? Not all changes within society or the
individuals within it are voted on in Parliament. Not all are even the result of
a conscious decision to change. In fact, hardly any are. It’s one of the joys of
living in a dynamic society. To desire things to remain static is to desire
death.
Allister
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