IS MARRIAGE A CIVIL RIGHT? Maggie ripostes

Ben, I think the operative term here is not so much "fails to grasp" as "disagrees." We should spend some more time on the whole Loving v. Virginia question. But I personally would like to do it in a crowd that is not so totally white.

Let me say that the logic goes the other way. I am proposing sexual-orientation mixing, not sexual-orientation separation. I think mixed marriages are fine, you think they are immoral and what was that word you used before? Ah, yes, deviant. The purpose of anti-miscengenation laws, which have no very old history btw in this country, was to uphold a racist regime not to further the fundamental purposes of marriage. You would have to believe, and hey Ben maybe you do! That laws about marriage arise in every known culture out of animus against homosexuals. Even cultures that ritualize and embrace homosexuality. They just don't confuse it with marriage.

As to religious people knowing where they stand, which religious people were you talking about--Episcopalians, maybe?
posted by maggie at 5:26 PM VOTE

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