is it just me?

[acroyear]

or do the arguments based on "tradition" in marriage, such as "marriage has been between a man and a woman for thousands of years and we shouldn't go changing that now" sound way too much like the arguments 150 years ago along the lines of "man has enslaved other men ffor thousands of years and we shouldn't go changing that now..." ?

"because its always been that way" is not a convincing argument for ANYTHING.  try again.

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Something I Have Saved On My HardDrive

[caseylane.livejournal.com]

This is a 1996 article from the Chicago Tribune. It should be required reading
for those who oppose gay marriage. I was amazed. It's eerie!

endgame



Chicago Tribune

Marriage issue just as plain as black & white

- by Eric Zorn (May 19,1996)

Statement No. 1: Same-sex marriage must be forbidden,
said the Republican senator from Wisconsin,'simply
because natural instinct revolts as it as wrong."

No. 2. An organization opposed to gay marriage claimed
legalizing them would result in "a degraded and ignoble
population incapable of moral and intellectual
development," and rested this belief on the "natural
superiority with which god (has) ennobled
heterosexuals."

No. 3. "I believe that the tendency to classify all
persons who oppose gay marriage as "prejudiced' is in
itself a prejudice." grumped a noted psychologist.
"nothing of any significance gained by such a
marriage."

No. 4. A U.S. representative from Georgia declared that
allowing gay marriages "necessarily involves(the)
degradation" of conventional marriage, an institution
that "deserves admiration rather than execration."

No. 5. "the next step will be that lesbians will demand
a law allowing them without restraint,... have free and
unrestrained social intercourse with your unmarried
sons and daughters," warned a Kentucky congressman. "It
is bound to come to that, There is no disguising the
fact. And the sooner the alarm is given and the people
take heed, the better it will be for our civilization."

No. 6. "when people of the same sex marry, they cannot
possibly have any progeny," wrote an appeals judge in a
Missouri case. "And such a fact sufficiently justifies
those laws which forbid their marriages."

No. 7. Same-sex marriages are "abominable" according to
Virginia law. If allowed, they would "pollute" America.