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Re: Federal judge strikes down Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage
Definitions change. It doesn't matter what something meant in the past. When it comes to something we are talking about today, marriage, it only matters what people want it to mean now, and that is to include those of the same sex.
And since yes same sex couples have been able to be married since at least as far back as 2004 (truly earlier, since it really was as soon as we started recognizing people as being legally able to change their gender/sex), then that means that the change has occurred. And federally, same sex marriage is legal. On a personal level, marriage has included same sex couples for a very long time because it only takes one.
His existence does not alter the fact that only very recently, and for political reasons, has marriage ever been claimed to mean same sex, and certainly not federally.
Definitions change. It doesn't matter what something meant in the past. When it comes to something we are talking about today, marriage, it only matters what people want it to mean now, and that is to include those of the same sex.
And since yes same sex couples have been able to be married since at least as far back as 2004 (truly earlier, since it really was as soon as we started recognizing people as being legally able to change their gender/sex), then that means that the change has occurred. And federally, same sex marriage is legal. On a personal level, marriage has included same sex couples for a very long time because it only takes one.