Even if the modern “marriage defender” isn’t brave enough to say so anymore or doesn’t understand the historical “traditional marriage” from which our institution has evolved, we need to continue questioning why some people insist on clinging so strongly to this “one man, one woman” relic.
It isn’t so much the idea of marriage as an institution that is allegedly “devoid of gender” that some people fear same-sex marriage implies, but the idea of marriage devoid of gender hierarchy.
Posted: September 3, 2010 at 2:43 pm.
They are portraying this as a religious moral issue and as a threat to ‘the natural order,’ when what we are really doing is looking at a reality that is already there. It would be a terrible distortion of democracy if they denied minorities their rights.
Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner responding to protests over the legalization of same-sex marriage made by the Catholic Church.
What I wouldn’t give for a U.S. President with the courage to say the same.
Posted: July 15, 2010 at 9:36 am.
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