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[dreamer_easy]

Via drhoz: Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

I have yet to hear an explanation of how extending the legal protections, privileges, and responsibilities of marriage to serious, dedicated gay couples would affect my own legal protections, privileges, and responsibilities.

What's more, I'm impatient with patently false arguments that gay marriage will destroy freedom of religion or opinion and the family unit. The latter is a particularly bizarre argument: how will legitimising and supporting stable two-parent families lead to more single parent families, polygamy, etc?

If - when - gay marriage is legal, Christian churches would no more be forced to marry Adam and Steve than they would be to marry Jon and I. Teachers will not be forced to teach acceptance of homosexuality in the classroom. (See A Commentary on the Document "Six Consequences if Proposition 8 Fails", which debunks lies about the November California referendum on banning gay marriage.)

Jon and I have no children and are unlikely to have any children. If anyone is attacking our marriage, it's the opponents of gay unions who insist that the purpose of marriage is to produce offspring.

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[alryssa.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that fact about AE was an odd little anomaly, considering how pervasive religion was in their society. I'm sure there were celebrations, natch, but formalised rituals seem to be completely absent. Fascinating.


See what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand!

I had this sudden vision of this large print equivalent of "OMG" being written by a Biblical-era correspondent, and snorted my tea in accordance with this totally inappropriate mental image.

No, heterosexuals are more than capable of destroying their own marriages, kthx. They don't need any help on that front ;)

[pedanther]

Come to think of it, I have read that there have been Christian societies where the standard marriage procedure was a civil contract followed by a church service that celebrated the union but explicitly was not itself the point at which the union began.

(It would of course be helpful if I could remember where I read this, or which society it was talking about.)