CHANGING THE DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE: Frank Elliott

[Frank Elliott is a scientist from San Diego.]

In fact, heterosexuals have changed the definition of marriage over the past 200 years. Far from being a social obligation connected to reproduction, marriage became conditioned on romantic and erotic love of two opposite sex partners. This change was a both a cause and effect of the elevation of the status of women.

Once the change in marriage happened it was no longer ethical for a (predominant) homosexual to marry a heterosexual partner of the opposite sex.

The change to love marriage inevitably created a class of people defined by their lack of suitability to marriage, namely those who are exclusively homosexual in orientation. Orientation became an identity.

Ultimately, the marriage debate is about civil rights, particularly the rights of women to be treated as equals rather than chattel.

Presumably, you have no problem with this change in the definition of marriage.
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