ericmurphy
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| Quote (The Ghost of Paley @ April 22 2006,16:52) | | But we're changing the nature of marriage. |
No we're not. Marriages will still be exactly the same as they've always been. As Flint has mentioned several times, of all the thousands of regulations involving marriage, you wouldn't have to change any of them to accommodate gay marriage. Straight marriages won't change one whit; either the ones that pre-existed gay marriages or the new ones that come into being after gay marriages do.
All we're doing is expanding the franchise. This has happened many times throughout history, whether we're talking who is allowed to vote, who's allowed to own property, or who is allowed to have human rights. Through all those changes, civilization has failed to collapse. Or at least, when it has collapsed, it's collapsed for entirely different reasons.
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