For roughly 3,000+ years, give or take a year, “marriage” was defined as the formal union between a man and woman (husband and wife).
At different times and places, more than one wife was deemed acceptable (I haven’t researched whether wives ever had multiple husbands), but the term “marriage” always defined a union between a man and a woman.
In recent years, in the name of “equal rights,” many are demanding that the definition of marriage be changed to exclude either the man or the woman (but not both) in the relationship and replace them with the opposite sex.
That brings to mind two questions:
1) Why can’t we keep the definition for marriage as it has been for a few thousand years, and come up with a new term for those other types of sexual unions. Then, grant those other types of unions “equal rights”?
2) If gay couples deserve “equal rights,” why don’t polygamists deserve equal rights? And what about a man and a woman who are in love but one (or both) of which is under 18 years of age, why are they being denied their rights?
Humm...
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