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SCOTUS blog: DOMA Unconstitutional

I'll again ask why you think you have ownership of the definition of a word, and why you think this applies to how the government should treat a legal contract.

And how does this affect your life? If you are talking to two men and one says "this is my husband Jim," like, does your head explode?

It's not my definition that I posted. I don't know why homosexuals want to pretend they own the definition.
 
Now the definition has changed. Embrace the change. It'll go down easier that way. :coffeepap

You are one of the few people on the right track here. It is about changing the definition. It has changed in some places but for most it has not. You don't have to embrace that, though. It just is what it is.
 
As interesting as the debate on homosexual marriage may be, I've spent too much time on this and ultimately debating this to death does nothing more than give unwarranted attention to this issue.
 
It's not my definition that I posted. I don't know why homosexuals want to pretend they own the definition.

You repeated yourself. See post 1098.
 
You are one of the few people on the right track here. It is about changing the definition. It has changed in some places but for most it has not. You don't have to embrace that, though. It just is what it is.

It changes whether you embrace it or not. And it's not the first time it's changed either. Won't be the last.
 
It changes whether you embrace it or not. And it's not the first time it's changed either. Won't be the last.


when exactly was the last time it "changed" and what was the reason for that change? because I'm pretty sure the definition we use(or used up until 1992 or 93) is the same one they used before jesus was around.
 
when exactly was the last time it "changed" and what was the reason for that change? because I'm pretty sure the definition we use(or used up until 1992 or 93) is the same one they used before jesus was around.

You'd be wrong. The definition of marriage used to be "a man and woman of the same race" in some states til 1967. The definition of marriage in some places was "a man and as many women as he could afford to take care of". And in reality, the definition of marriage was "if they claim they are married, they are married", at least prior to around the 10th Century.
 
You'd be wrong. The definition of marriage used to be "a man and woman of the same race" in some states til 1967. The definition of marriage in some places was "a man and as many women as he could afford to take care of". And in reality, the definition of marriage was "if they claim they are married, they are married", at least prior to around the 10th Century.

oh, so history in your mind only means things that happened inside this particular since 1776. I was kind of talking about since ancient times how has marriage changed.

small difference.
 
oh, so history in your mind only means things that happened inside this particular since 1776. I was kind of talking about since ancient times how has marriage changed.

small difference.

No history means a lot of things. But it has in fact changed throughout the history of the world, and when we look at different cultures. It included same sex couples in some cultures. It included multiple wives in some cultures and even multiple husbands in one known culture. It included proxy marriages, where a person of either gender could take the place of another. It included marriages that were marriages because the people said they were married (most common type of marriage in fact, although usually it was more the man saying they were married). It included marriages between a dead person and a living person (China). In fact, both could be dead and the family still allowed to marry them in order to join the families.
 
when exactly was the last time it "changed" and what was the reason for that change? because I'm pretty sure the definition we use(or used up until 1992 or 93) is the same one they used before jesus was around.

Roguenuke already answered you. If you need more history, perhaps you should read up on it first. Just a thought.
 
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